LitHub Daily: September 28, 2016

TODAY: In 1966, writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, dies. 

• It’s Shirley Jackson Day on Lit Hub! • Biographer Ruth Franklin on the marketing of Shirley Jackson as a witch • Laura Miller on the haunting of Jackson (and other young women in big, isolated houses) • Lisa Levy on biography, pathography, and the need for more big literary biographies of women • In search of Shirley Jackson’s house in Bennington, Vermont • From Jackson’s grandson Miles Hyman, a graphic adaptation of “The Lottery.” | Literary Hub
• “Zink’s novels, while undeniably excellent, are so strange that it is hard to understand why anybody actually likes them.” On two forthcoming books by Nell Zink. | The New Republic
• Daddy is less important: A short story by Etgar Keret. | The New Yorker
• “Until lawmakers are willing to cede power, the same failed programs will continue to erode our social life and democracy.” An interview with Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. | Public Books
• Similarly strange-making: On the commonalities of modernism and science fiction. | Omni
• “I also think it’s writing in this way, with detail and specificity, that makes it possible to address desire and motherhood and ambivalence and sadness.” An interview with Belle Boggs. | Electric Literature
• On the masterful, dangerous late writing of Henry James, proud recent recipient of a commemorative stamp. | The Smart Set
• “You were with your people. You found them.” Michael Chabon takes his fashion-obsessed, 13-year-old son to Paris Fashion Week. | GQ
• On the digital construction of identity, from Gary Shteyngart’s äppäräts to Beyoncé’s social media presence. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Herman Melville was also a failed poet: on the 125th anniversary of Melville’s death, remembering his final, poetic years · How NASA sent fancy cameras into space, and the images they captured. · A new poem by CAConrad · The son of a repudiated woman: From Badawi by Mohed Altrad, translated by Adriana Hunter

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