LitHub Daily: January 13, 2017

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On accidentally naming after a real person. Who then emails you. | Literary Hub
Alana Massey on the myth of the antisocial writer, and the fear of being nice. | Literary Hub
In honor of Friday the 13th, a brief survey of great literary obituaries. | Literary Hub
A photographic journey along the Underground Railroad. | Literary Hub
“I do believe that while a picture may paint a thousand words, a thousand considered words are more powerful than a thousand misleading pictures.” Eimear McBride on representations of women’s sexuality in our culture and literature. | Times Literary Supplement
On The Art of the Affair and uncovering the relationships between the (apparently, much more fun) artists of the past. | VICE
“It’s pleasurable to read and write about confusion because that’s what we do as people. We are often confused.” An interview with Lynne Tillman. | The Creative Independent
She was a diamond partly because her company was so rough: On Megyn Kelly’s memoir. | The New Yorker
On the latest iteration of Sherlock and the use of detective fiction “in a world gone berserk.” | New Republic
“I wanted to explore how we’ve ended up so disastrously disconnected from the suffering we are imposing on the living world.” An interview with Thalia Field (who will read next week at a benefit for the Nonhuman Rights Project and NRDC). | Nonhuman Rights Project, Solid Objects
Announcing the shortlist for and the judges of the . | The Morning News

 


 












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