LitHub Daily: March 10, 2016

TODAY: In 1896, Nancy Cunard, writer, heiress, political activist, and muse is born. 

• Geoff Dyer, Michael Croley, John Freeman, and Pico Iyer are in awe of the great Annie Dillard. | Literary Hub
• “We need to keep doing the work of expanding of who we think the audience is.” Four questions with the National Book Foundation’s new executive director, Lisa Lucas. | Publishers Weekly
• The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize has been announced: Ferrante,* Kenzaburo Oe, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Han Kang, Eka Kurniawan, Yan Lianke! | The Guardian
• Kaitlyn Greenidge on ambition, imaginative exercises, and her new novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman. | The Rumpus
• “Sometimes I think that I’m just living.” An interview with Helen Oyeyemi. | Broadly
• In the opening round of this year’s Tournament of Books, Maria Bustillos weighs the relative merits of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies and Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic. | The Morning News
• Her life is a series of crossed thresholds: Dan Chiasson on Eileen Myles. | The New York Review of Books
• “When a woman writes about sex, particularly a lot, it gives everyone a handy way to dismiss her writing as a whole.” Jenny Zhang and Charlotte Shane in conversation. | Medium
• How to verb nouns and influence people: Chi Luu on the (occasionally frustrating) phenomenon behind words like “Googling.” | JSTOR
• The questions, ultimately, are more necessary than the answers: Ta-Nehisi Coates previews his Black Panther debut. | The Atlantic

Also on Literary Hub: Shani Gilchrist remembers Pat Conroy · In praise of the mighty zine: at the LA Zine fest · 30 Books in 30 Days: Michele Filgate on Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City · The midnight storming of Stony Point: From Patrick K. O’Donnell’s Washington’s Immortals  · An excerpt from Noonday by Pat Barker

 

Correction: An earlier version of this post included Karl Ove Knausgaard as a nominee. Karl Ove Knausgaard was NOT nominated. This error will be included in book six.

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