Lit Hub Daily: March 21, 2017

TODAY: In 1957, C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham at her bedside in the Churchill Hospital.

• Elif Batuman on the perils of fictionalizing her life (and the pleasures of fact-checking at The New Yorker). | Literary Hub
• If presidential politics is the ultimate reality TV, we need desperately need to change the channel. | Literary Hub
• 10 transgressive fairy tales that deserve movies of their own. | Literary Hub
• The literary world remembers the late Bob Silvers. | Literary Hub
• Pati Yumi Cottrell: writing isn’t therapeutic in any way. | Literary Hub
• Marina Benjamin reflects on the lessons that can (and cannot) be learned at her father’s deathbed. | Literary Hub
• “A review of another author’s work carries a heavy responsibility, because you can’t–unfortunately–just make stuff up.” Margaret Atwood’s acceptance speech for the NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. | Book Marks
• Robert Silvers, the “exacting and perpetual editor of The New York Review of Books,” died yesterday at 87. | Associated Press
• Having already been combined with zombies and game theory, Jane Austen has encountered her worst pairing yet (with the alt-right). | The New York Times
• “Trump might not be known for reading books, but he has always proved gifted at getting his name on every empty surface known to man.” On the “bewildering amount” of Trump-themed writing that has appeared since he announced his presidential bid. | MTV News
• I’ve been learning how to drive every day of my life: Bryan Washington on driving while black. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On Jennifer Crandall’s documentary project, Whitman, Alabama, in which “the citizens of Alabama using Whitman’s most famous poem as a conduit to speak about themselves.” | The New Yorker
• Michelle Dean on the importance of writers not looking away (and the relatability of baby raccoon memes). | The New Republic
• I sort of shrink the world and use the rules to sustain me: An interview with Elena Passarello. | Tin House

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