Lit Hub Daily: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

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Margaret Atwood recounts becoming a writer under the intimidating (and brilliant) shadow of Simone de Beauvoir. | Lit Hub

“There will never be a greater or more powerful human technology, which is why literacy was kept from women for a very long time.” Lauren Groff in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. | Lit Hub

Vanessa Guignery considers the “enchanting and terrifying” worlds of Ben Okri’s boundary-blurring fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism

“Those who thought the play was irredeemably antisemitic were, the consensus went, vulgar and whiny—and, completely coincidentally, they were also Jewish.” Dara Horn (reluctantly) revisits The Merchant of Venice. | Lit Hub Criticism

Belle Marie Torres Velázquez was the only doctor on Culebra, an island off Puerto Rico—and then Hurricanes Irma and María struck. | Lit Hub Climate Change

On Keen On, Yanis Varoufakis discusses alternatives to techno-feudal capitalism. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“In failing to look for the nation in these books, we fail to see Rooney’s stories in all their richness.” On the (often-overlooked) essentiality of Sally Rooney’s Irishness. | Gawker

Chris Lehmann on J.D. Vance’s “conversion to the MAGA cause.” | The Baffler

“Gender is an assignment that does not just happen once: it is ongoing.” Judith Butler on gender categories and queer politics. | The Guardian

Qian Julie Wang discusses her memoir, education, and equity. | Shondaland

Jeffrey Zuckerman interviews Carl de Souza. | Words Without Borders

Jon Wiener talks to Art Spiegelman about his latest project and comics-related controversies. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Sophie Gilbert discusses the work of Lauren Groff, whose books “have been a good few beats ahead of the most pressing issues of the moment.” | The Atlantic

S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia talk neo-pronouns and genre-hopping, on Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre. 

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Alexandra Kleeman on artificial boundaries, cognitive science, and writing her latest novel, on Thresholds. 

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Crystal Wilkinson discusses finding community among

Affrilachian Poets, on Reading Women.

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