LitHub Daily: March 21, 2016

TODAY: In 2013, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe dies. 

• One country, two debut novelists, two book tours, twelve cities: Carly Hallman and Bette Adriaanse see America. | Literary Hub
• Githa Hariharan on Kashmir: reconciling a border state with a dream state. | Literary Hub
• Irishman Dan Sheehan chases down the Irish Arts Center’s NYC book-giveaway on St. Patrick’s Day, experiences nostalgia. | Literary Hub
• “They start with the extremely personal (and sometimes deliberately perverse) in order to evoke the cold, impassable space between self and other.” On autofiction and the empathy novels (used to) encourage. | The Atlantic
• On Cré na Cille, a Joycean (in both a euphemistic and literal sense) Irish classic that remained untranslated for over 70 years. | The New Yorker
• Ivan Vladislavić on apartheid, political systems and physical spaces, and the stuff that gets left out of books. | Electric Literature
• Catherine Lowell shares three lessons she learned from writing about the Brontë sisters, of whom there is still, apparently, much left to say. | The Daily Beast
• On The Witch, a “descendent of Nathaniel Hawthorne” by way of the Brothers Grimm. | The Millions
• “Poetry can define the dominant languages we have in culture – and now those languages are advertising and the news media.” An interview with “text-art Banksy” Robert Montgomery. | The Guardian
• Now we can all (mentally) bathe in the purple rain: Prince has announced that he is writing a memoir. | Flavorwire
• “There are many worthy writers languishing in moldy archives, and I would venture to say that the majority of them are women.” On recovering forgotten women writers and the unknown genius of Constance Fenimore Woolson. | Slate

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: at Octavia Books in NOLA · At the Tuscon Festival of Books: freaks, cranks, and poets in the desert · Reading lessons from my teenage self · From Danielle Dutton’s Margaret the First

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