Lit Hub Daily: March 2, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1859, Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem is born; the musical Fiddler on the Roof is based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman.
- Reading Ulysses 140 characters at a time: on the rise of the literary bot. | Literary Hub
- Advice from Jeff VanderMeer: write for yourself, write for joy. | Literary Hub
- Cornell West on James Baldwin, more relevant than ever. | Literary Hub
- How Peternelle van Arsdale learned to stop worrying about the market and just write. | Literary Hub
- “I shout that she’s crazy and scaring me and I want to get out of the goddamn car and that we’re going to die, please, she’s going to fucking kill us.” An excerpt from Julie Buntin’s forthcoming novel, Marlena. | Recommended Reading
- Alec Baldwin is bringing his Donald Trump impersonation to the page: the actor, along with Spy magazine founder Kurt Anderson, is writing a satirical Trump autobiography for Penguin Press. | The New York Times
- Christian Lorentzen on Joan Didion’s 1970 reporting notebook South and West, a “marvelous time capsule” and “an act of generosity.” | Vulture
- Grove editor and Festival Neue Literatur curator Peter Blackstock on queer literature, building a diverse list, and the best places to find books in translation. | The Center for Fiction
- I think in general my sense of the world is becoming more apocalyptic: An interview with Jim Shepard | Fiction Writers Review
- Pull Me Under novelist Kelly Luce on the harrowing week she spent in a Japanese detention center as a young English teacher. | New York Magazine
- “I certainly don’t mind pushing buttons.” Dale Peck and John Oakes talk reviving Barney Rosset’s infamous erotic literary journal, the Evergreen Review. | The Daily Beast
And on Literary Hub: Eileen Myles on why you should go the Festival Neue Literatur • Kyoko Mori on surviving her childhood, and writing through trauma • From Yoojin Grace Wuertz’s debut novel, Everything Belongs to Us.
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