Lit Hub Daily: April 17, 2017

TODAY: In 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies. 

• The Handmaid’s Tale adapts more than just the book, it adapts the contemporary American news cycle. | Literary Hub
• Sara Paretsky on finding heroes from Joan of Arc to Little Women. | Literary Hub
• Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s best characters are dead people: Gabriel Bellot on a modern master’s morbid fixation. | Literary Hub
• “Unlike much that passes for the culture of nature, The Peregrine cannot be passively consumed. It sticks in the craw, it rakes the mind.” Robert Marcfarlane on JA Baker’s The Peregrine, 50 years on. | The Guardian
• Something of a cross between Sheryl Sandberg and Elizabeth Gilbert: How Maureen Chiquet, former global chief executive of Chanel, is reinventing herself with a new memoir. | The New York Times
• “Once you’re finished, the sense of accomplishment will be soul-satisfying.” How to organize your book collection. | Read it Forward
• From One Hudred Years of Solitude to The Lord of the Rings: the 11 best resurrections in literature. | Electric Literature
• “Why am I comfortable with magical elements when the setting is India but not when it’s America? Am I engaging in a form of exoticization?” An interview with Rahul Mehta. | Lambda Literary
• In preparation for the part, Nixon had immersed herself in Richard Sewall’s biography: how Cynthia Nixon became Emily Dickinson for Terence Davies’ film A Quiet Passion. | The New Yorker
• “The selfie is a rabbit hole, a portal into another dimension.” An excerpt from Ilan Stavans’ I Love My Selfie. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: In conversation with poet Mónica de La Torre · On Andres Barba’s fictional exploration of inexplicable cruelty · From Sara Baume’s latest novel, A Line Made By Walking.  

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