LitHub Daily: August 2, 2016

TODAY: In 1869, George Eliot starts writing Middlemarch. 

• Leigh Stein on how to end a memoir without getting married. | Literary Hub
• 18 books you should read this August. | Literary Hub
• When Donald Trump’s assistant cheated in my MFA seminar. | Literary Hub
• “How worldly was he, coolly inviting her to trespass on the grounds of his second marriage?” A short story by Tessa Hadley. | The New Yorker
• Camille Rankine on traveling into the first person plural, negatively translating The Office, and working slowly. | Divedapper
• On the stones, by the sea: On literary pilgrimages and the fertility of holiday boredom. | The Paris Review
• When I was that age, it was like my nerve endings were all exposed: An interview with Megan Abbott and excerpt from her new novel. | Los Angeles Review of Books, BuzzFeed Reader
• On “the Anne Frank tropes” in the fiction of Philip Roth, Nathan, Englander and Shalom Auslander. | Signature Reads
• Angela Davis, Marc Lamont Hill, and more: A reading list of books by #BlackLivesMatter activists and scholars. | Melville House
• God : hope :: ____ : _____: Samuel Beckett’s SAT questions. | The Point
• Assay has launched its Best American Essays project, which compiles data about every essay included in the collections, from 1986 to the present. | Assay

Also on Literary Hub: James Baldwin: the world is no longer white · Books making news: Patty Hearst and Potter mania · How editors reject writers: from Terry McDonell’s The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers

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