LitHub Daily: September 3, 2015

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1962, e.e. cummings, prince of Greenwich Village and punctuation, dies. 
  • A writing lesson from Ursula K. Le Guin. | Literary Hub
  • Don DeLillo, prolific Contributor to American Letters, has received a National Book Award for lifetime achievement. | Flavorwire
  • Hiking with, and taking a road trip through the stories of, Joy Williams. | The New York Times Magazine
  • Parsing Very Big Questions with the fathers of one thousand think pieces, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. | BuzzFeed Books
  • It’s form itself that is juicy: on the subversive writing and tricky friendship of Dodie Bellamy and Eileen Myles. | Bookforum
  • On the collected writings of Shirley Jackson, who stared down, raised, and endured her own demons. | The Weekly Standard
  • Post Ferrante Fever, Franzen Mania, or whatever other literary affliction ails you, here are fall’s best Latin American books. | The Guardian
  • Bad Mother, Good Art: on Sally Mann’s mind-stretching memoir. | Public Books

Also on Literary Hub: A back to school reading list: what writers teach their students · Scott Cheshire reunites with the palm trees of the west · The travel diaries of Lawrence Ferlinghetti: in Latin America with Allen (Ginsberg)

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