LitHub Daily: October 28, 2015

TODAY: In 1903, Evelyn Waugh (of which The Atlantic said in 1954, “There are few contemporary writers of the first rank whose imagination runs to such appalling and macabre inventions”) is born. 

• Finding  life-changing books in the most unlikely places; a reading list from Bruce Bauman. | Literary Hub
• On favorite reading experiences and the “great hunger”of first-person narration: part two of Paul Holdengraber’s chat with Ben Lerner. | Literary Hub
• “I’ve been publishing in ‘mainstream’ journals and my book won that [the Pulitzer] prize, so what is it that is making me invisible?” A report from PEN America’s diversity in publishing panel with Greg Pardlo. | The Guardian
• Jonathan Franzen on the rise of “the New Yorker story,” known for its “carefully wrought, many-comma’d prose,” in the 1950s. | The New Yorker
• “American literature has been missing Kurniawan, without even being aware, until now, of our loss.” On Eka Kurniawan’s two newly translated novels. | Bookforum
• “The black face boy is why we are here. He is the cake of all our trouble!” Nikky Finney’s devastating “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy.” | Oxford American
• The disturbing and amazing Mark Z. Danielewski offers five books that are both unsettling and beautiful. | A.V. Club
• On Lauren Redniss’s insightful, formally innovative look at everyone’s favorite topic of conversation – the weather. | The New York Times
• The artist is (too) present: Writers are coming to engage with and embrace social media. | Full Stop
• The prodigal pun returns: On the linguistics of the overused, overlooked form of wit. | JSTOR Daily

Also on Literary Hub: Corinne Manning in defense of the new censorship · A poem-a-day countdown to the Irish Arts Center Poetry Fest: day seven, Tracy K. Smith · A spooky story from Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts, “Colony”

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