Lit Hub Daily: May 9, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1938, Serbian-American Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic is born.
- Eight secrets about sex from people I know: a writer divulges what she’s not supposed to tell. | Literary Hub
- On A Tomb for Anatole, Mourning Diary, and the books we read (and write) to get by. | Literary Hub
- Revealing the unwritten obstacles faced by academics of color: How Dr. Patricia Matthew is bringing exclusionary practices into the light. | Literary Hub
- Illuminating the dark sky of sex: A 1967 New York Times review of James Salter’s “tour de force in erotic realism.” | Book Marks
- Golf buddies Bill Clinton and James Patterson are co-writing a political thriller entitled The President is Missing, forthcoming in June 2018. | Publishers Weekly
- Vinson Cunningham on the oft-debated legitimacy of Black English, a grammatically complex dialect and “a moral language, too.” | The New Yorker
- Dennis Lehane on writing for TV, children in peril, and the name Rachel. | Literary Hub
- “I always thought of the horror of history being what you know, but by the end of the book I started to have the sense that the even worse horror of history is the horror that you don’t know.” An interview with David Grann. | Guernica
- Alt-right troll and erstwhile tech blogger Milo Yiannopoulos has announced he will self-publish his memoir Dangerous—and sue Simon & Schuster for cancelling its release. | The Guardian
- 30 of literary fiction’s most risqué book covers, from Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Tampa. | Literary Hub
- “I wanted to write a book that was beyond what usually gets communicated in language.” Claudia Rankine’s Art of Poetry interview is now online. | The Paris Review
- KFC has released Tender Wings of Desire, a free romance novella in honor of Mother’s Day (which is also “the chicken chain’s best-selling day of the year”). | Business Insider
- Writing hard times in small towns: A conversation with Stephanie Powell Watts. | Literary Hub
- This is not how someone who is concerned about ethics behaves: On Ivanka Trump’s disingenuous claims that she isn’t—and won’t be—promoting her new book. | The New Republic
Also on Literary Hub: 5 books making news this week · A report from the first-ever American Dreams festival · An excerpt from From Bryn Chancellor’s novel, Sycamore.
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