LitHub Daily: March 24, 2016

TODAY: In 1919, poet and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Lawrence Ferlinghetti is born. 

• Claire Vaye Watkins returns to the desert hometown she once escaped, talks to her teenage self. |  Literary Hub
• Kaitlyn Greenidge and Angela Flournoy talk race, research, and the high-stakes choices of debut novelists. |  Literary Hub
• Sarah Schulman, correcting the Canon 10 books at a time. |  Literary Hub
• The Whiting Awards were announced; winners include Mitchell S. Jackson, Catherine Lacey, and Ocean Vuong. | Whiting Awards
• On a “content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work” by Nabokov (a collection of his butterfly drawings). | The New Yorker
• James Baldwin’s longtime home in the south of France may be demolished to build luxury villas. | Hyperallergic
• “‘Fat girl’ isn’t simply a question of flesh—it’s a far more dynamic, psychological and relative state than this, one that can hold contradictions, is internally and externally constructed.” An interview with Mona Awad. | Tin House
• Prison, poems, and palatability: On writers “let loose into a world that spurns them and whose values they reject.” | The Paris Review
• “Camus had become the one marketable export left to a bloodied and brutalized country.” On Camus’ single (and absurd) visit to America. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Perhaps a new way of reading can produce a better way to live: On the new edition of Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and its lasting legacy. | The New Republic
• “I had to depend on community for a lot of my life and wellbeing. And that’s also why I support, so arduously, my community.” An interview with poet Christopher Soto. | Hazlitt

Also on Literary Hub: Skateboarding in fiction: A brief history of literary failure · Truth a trauma, behind bars: Mira Ptacin on teaching memoir writing in prison · A drink with Simone de Beauvoir: from Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café

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