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Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 4th)

Looking for some interesting reading to get you through hump day? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out:
Roxane Gay reviews the new Joyce Carol Oates and gives a lesson on how to write difference
The Guardian has an awesome infographic on the bleakness of Thomas Hardy novels
Reading David Foster Wallace for the colors
Harper Lee is publishing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird (and we round up the best Twitter jokes about it)
Sofia Samatar on weird fiction and the interstitial
Jonathan Sturgeon warns about the second coming of the textbook wars
Is it dangerous to have your significant other read your writing?
Boing Boing wants to put the guilt back in guilty pleasures
Laura Bogart continues the conversation about writing and money in Dame Magazine
