LitHub Daily: March 29, 2016

TODAY: In 1920, the first run of Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise sells out, three days after publication. 

• Sofia Samatar on the rich language of fantasy and the 13 words that made her a writer. | Literary Hub
• Molly Prentiss: from a California commune to life in the big city, you can’t do it alone. | Literary Hub
• The secrets behind the cover of Judy Blume’s first adult novel in nearly 20 years. | Literary Hub
• The longlist for the Best Translated Book of the Year Award is here! (Fiction and poetry.) | Three Percent
• “By reading I cannot reanimate corpses, but I can orient myself toward imagining possibilities, tempering my mind for compassionate agility, caring for individual victims of violence.” On corpses, Isis, and contemporary Iraqi fiction. | The Point
• Snacks, bigotry, and giant turds: Patricia Lockwood reports from a Trump rally. | The New Republic
• From radical feminism to kidnap-murders, a list of nonfiction books through which to better understand the Neapolitan novels. | Electric Literature
• “Everything has been mild hell here since I last wrote and before that too.” Letters and illustrations from Iris Murdoch. | The Paris Review
• How does Wallace Stevens think? On poetry, philosophy, and (anti)philosophical poets. | New England Review
• “He was untouchable, or he thought he was. But that era is over, for all those guys.” On the recent allegations against Thomas Sayers Ellis, institutional responsibility, and important, inappropriate literary men. | Jezebel
• Someone bombed the backdrop of my life: Selin Gökcesu on the recent terrorist attacks in Ankara and longing for home. | Guernica
• Jeff Shotts, the executive editor of Graywolf Press, shares five recent poetry debuts that he continually returns to. | PEN America

Also on Literary Hub: Sunjeev Sahota: life after the Man Booker shortlist · Books making news this week: debuts, icons, and poets · From The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien

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