Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2017

TODAY: In 1886, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor and publisher known for publishing lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne’s novels, dies.

• You could go drink ten pints in honor of St. Patrick… OR you could check out these must-read contemporary Irish writers… Or you could do both. | Literary Hub
• “Migration is the starting point for everyone.” In conversation with Mohsin Hamid, who has a written a novel for these times.| Literary Hub
•  Nell Stevens went to the end of the world to write her novel, and very nearly starved. | Literary Hub
• On the use of adverbs in great literature: It turns out Toni Morrison—rather than Hemingway—is the paragon of spare American prose. | Literary Hub
• The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, including Louise Erdrich, Ruth Franklin, and Ishion Hutchinson, were announced. | NBCC
• More than 200,000 Americans, including Hanya Yanagihara, Salman Rushdie, and Neil Gaiman, have called on Congress to reject the proposed federal budget, which will cut funding to the NEA and NEH. | PEN America
• It’s about making a person more herself: Ann Goldstein on translating Elena Ferrante and what drew her to Italian. | Hazlitt
• Saskia Vogel on finding the most precise terms for her translation of Karolina Ramqvist’s The White City (“The tracksuit? Indeed, it was a pink Juicy Couture.”). | The Paris Review
• The Oxford comma (which, as is usefully pointed out, is disdained by Vampire Weekend) “has helped a group of dairy drivers in a dispute with a company about overtime pay.” | The Guardian
• I had the sense of being at someone else’s family reunion: Carvell Wallce on attending the 33rd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. | MTV News
• In praise of Stump the Bookseller, a blog that tries to reconnect readers with the titles of partially-remembered books. | T Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: Howard W. French on China and the geopolitics of the future · Andréa Stella on The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit, Clarice Lispector’s children’s book.

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