LitHub Daily: February 15, 2016

TODAY: In 1998, novelist and war reporter Martha Gellhorn dies of an apparent suicide.

• Jo Nesbø built the perfect writing room (and still writes at the local cafe). | Literary Hub
• Was Antonin Scalia the most literary of the Supreme Court justices? | Literary Hub
• On the movement into silence of Annie Dillard, latter-day Thoreau and spiritual Strunk & White. | The Atlantic
• Wretched, wretched, and yet well intended: Kafka on the Metro and his writing desk, from the forthcoming Is That Kafka? 99 Finds. | The Nation
• Colson Whitehead, Roxane Gay, and more: Books by black authors to look forward to in 2016. | The Root
• “I asked them what it meant to stop progressives, and they had a hard time getting past a personal animus for Clinton and ‘her ugly pantsuits’ and ‘Benghazi’.” Christian Lorentzen reports from New Hampshire. | London Review of Books
• It doesn’t always start with a suitcase: The first chapter from Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland. | Work in Progress
• Ada Calhoun on the history behind the “deeply depressing” end of St. Mark’s Bookshop, and the lessons we can learn from it. | The New Yorker
• “He was a mannequin of pain, controlled by it.” An excerpt from Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs. | n+1
• Investigating complex histories of damage and disturbance: On fungi, capitalism, and The Mushroom at the End of the World. | The New Inquiry

Also on Literary Hub: 30 Books in 30 Days, counting down the NBCC Award finalists: Mark Athitakis on Ottessa Moshfegh. · Lutyens & Rubenstein, London literary agency, opens its own bookshop · A disappearance: from Jowhor Ile’s And After Many Days

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