LitHub Daily: April 11, 2016

TODAY: In 1970, short story writer and novelist John O’Hara dies. 

• At home in Deaf culture: Sara Novic on storytelling in an un-writable language. | Literary Hub
• Why wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the cover of a magazine? Rumaan Alam on how we still judge women writers by a different standard. | Literary Hub
• Get to know the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award finalists, in anticipation of tonight’s PEN Literary Awards. Plus, audio from last night’s nominee reading at KGB. | Literary Hub, PEN America
• Salman Rushdie on metamorphosing, multi-faceted work of the fathers of modern literature, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare | New Statesman
• A brief history of quality reporting by female writers: 56 nonfiction pieces by women journalists, from 1960 to today. | The Cut
• “I hoped to depict a subtler kind of transformation, one that may not look like much from the outside but feels profound as an internal experience.” An interview with Hannah Tennant-Moore. | Literary Bennington
• Manuel Gonzales on the results of extraordinary things, adult words, and 10 Things I Hate About You. | The Rumpus
• “The provinces of China and their cuisines are nothing more than a prop for the joke, and ‘they,’ the Chinese, hover ominously just out of frame.” Timothy Yu on Calvin Trillin’s racially insensitive New Yorker poem. | The New Republic
• Beautiful and horrifying, terrible and transfixing: On Lina Meruane’s Seeing Red. | Full Stop
• “There is no safe response to a member of my own community who sees first my black body and next (if ever) my registration badge and lanyard that should say, “We are the same.’” Ruth Ellen Kocher on attending AWP as a black woman. | Entropy
• Aquariums, foot juggling, and post-traumatic stress disorder: Real-world context for J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. | Ploughshares

Also on Literary Hub: Why do cats love bookstores? · Ten musicians who could be novelists · New York City’s Dorian Gray: from Edmund White’s Our Young Man

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