Lit Hub Daily: May 2, 2017

TODAY: In 1611, The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 

• Rebel leader, beauty queen, icon of resistance: Charmaine Craig on the amazing life of her mother. | Literary Hub
• The world’s most secluded person reviews the classics of hermit literature. | Literary Hub
• As if by magic, a bookstore opens in Brooklyn. | Literary Hub
• Secrets of the book designer: “My job isn’t to make things pretty.” | Literary Hub
• Life before a massacre: on the rise of Jim Jones. | Literary Hub
• In conversation with the crime reporter who inspired a Roberto Bolaño character. | Literary Hub
• Back to Appalachia: Joe Halstead tries (and fails) to understand his hometown. | Literary Hub
• “We not only laugh at the world according to Garp, but we also accept it and love it.” A 1978 review of John Irving’s bestselling novel. | Book Marks
• “As France has braced itself for the possibility of a Le Pen Presidency, Louis’s book has become the subject of political discussion in a way that novels rarely do.” Garth Greenwell on Édouard Louis’s novel, The End of Eddy. | The New Yorker
• Words Without Borders and The Scofield have new issues, featuring writing about international food and Conrad Aiken and consciousness, respectively. | Words Without Borders, The Scofield
• Exploring “themes of betrayal and rebirth and happiness in the context of gender and power” in West African literature: A reading list by Chinelo Okparanta. | Electric Literature
• “What he got was a fascinated ethnographer whose voyage into Trump’s America never found its heart of darkness.” Aaron Bady on S-Town. | Hazlitt
• You’re either a mother or a bitch: On Deborah Nelson’s new book, Tough Enough, which explores the unsentimental approach of Hannah Arendt, Joan Didion, and Susan Sontag, among others. | Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Maybe there are twelve-year-olds who are ripe for a good psychosexual dystopian satire. But being twelve is its own psychosexual dystopian satire, and I was not in on the joke.” Abbey Fenbert on her stint as a seventh-grade book censor. | Catapult
• Barbershop Books, which “has transformed 49 barbershops into community spaces that support positive early reading experiences for boys in 18 cities across 11 states,” has won the National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize. | National Book Foundation

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