Lit Hub Daily: February 17, 2017

TODAY: In 1903, Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer, translator and intellectual, best known for his novel The Blind Owl, is born.

• Why is a global security conference featuring Nobel literature laureates? | Literary Hub
• First Krysten Ritter… then who? 11 celebrity novels we’d like to see. | Literary Hub
• Stéphane Gerson, a father writing through the death of his young son. | Literary Hub
• On revolution in poetry, what it is, what it isn’t… | Literary Hub
• Maira Kalman on God, the weather, and when enough is enough. | Literary Hub
• Read some Carson McCullers (who would be 100 on Sunday). | Literary Hub
• “I see shame as part of a process of becoming free: to create or, yes, to love.” An interview with Rachel Cusk. | BOMB Magazine
• For those who have always desperately wanted to see a video of Marcel Proust: Your prayers, perhaps, have been answered. | The Guardian
• If you want to be famous, don’t be a writer: Manjula Martin on literary celebrity. | Catapult
• “These books are rife with the kind of horrors that led half of the country to believe, at any given time, that they were living out the end of the American experiment.” An endorsement of presidential biographies. | The New York Times
• Mick Jagger has written a “delicious, heady” memoir that you will not be able to read. | Vulture
• “America, because it shares borders with so few countries, because it is so isolated, has an apocalyptic relationship with the world.” Karan Mahajan on travel writing. | Granta
• A new project, #UnitedStatesOfBooks, will highlight a book that captures the “literary spirit” of each state. | Penguin Random House
• Europa Editions and Other Press are accepting applicants for their International Book Fair Scholarship for U.S. Booksellers. | International Book Fair Scholarship

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