LitHub Daily: April 28, 2016
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1925, T.S. Eliot accepts a position as editor at Faber and Faber publishers.
- The joys (and perils) of literary tourism. | Literary Hub
- Lisa Lucas on ten more musicians who could be novelists. | Literary Hub
- Half-truth and reconciliation: after the Rwandan Genocide. | Literary Hub
- The literary friendship of Jim Harrison and Tom McGuane. | Literary Hub
- Tony Tulathimutte on the “high priest of the American apocalypse,” Don DeLillo (and on Late Night: Seth Myers, on a bunch of t-shirts). | The New Republic, NBC
- “The Queen always looked profound when she pooped.” A short story by Helen Phillips. | Electric Literature
- “Don’t listen to the words—/they’re only little shapes for what you’re saying.” Six poetry publishers share their favorite poetic lines. | Consortium Bookslinger
- On love, violence, and how certain art is like anal sex: Patrick Nathan on What Belongs to You. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Rabai al-Madhoun’s “tragic, polyphonic novel,” Destinies, has won the International prize for Arabic fiction. | The Guardian
- On recent books by Frans de Waal and Sy Montgomery and the beautiful genius that is Inky the octopus. | The New Yorker
- The founder of Barnes & Noble Inc., Leonard Riggio, has announced his retirement (35 years later than he originally intended). | The New York Times
- My oatmeal for your love: A short story by Rebekah Bergman. | Joyland
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