LitHub Daily: April 6, 2015

Today: In 1895, Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

Oscar Wilde’s wonderful speech from the dock. | UMKC School of Law
Alabama, for one, does not think Harper Lee was the victim of elder abuse. | WSJ
Random House has revealed the cover for David Mitchell’s series-of-tweets-turned novel. | LA Times
On the other side of the Internet divide, Salman Rushdie blames technological incompetence for his pans of several classic works. | The Independent
The Audubon Society fires back at bird-lover and ‘dishonest intellectual,’ Jonathan Franzen. | Audubon Society
“We believe in Ezra Pound’s charge to ‘make it new’ and/or Andre 3000’s revelation that ‘you only funky as your last cut.’” On poetry and hip-hop. | Poetry Magazine
“I wish I’d felt proud rather than grateful.” Saeed Jones on being a writer of color in a publishing world that is 89% white. | BuzzFeed
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a story in the New Yorker this week. | The New Yorker
On Mexico’s polyphonic, unflinching literary tradition. | Bookanista

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