LitHub Daily: September 18, 2015

TODAY: In 1917, Aldous Huxley is hired as a teacher at Eton. One of his students, Eric Blair (pictured here at age 17), will later use the pen name George Orwell.  

• Embedded with the super-rich: a photo essay from inside the world’s tax havens. | Literary Hub

• Last but not least, the National Book Awards for Fiction longlist was announced yesterday and includes Lauren Groff, Angela Flournoy, and Nell Zink. | The New Yorker

• “I was asked… to make my book seem more relatable to audiences, as if none of those audiences had people like me in them.” Mira Jacob on being asked to speak, and then ignored, as a writer of color. | BuzzFeed Books
• A Löwy with a certain Kafka component vs. a true Kafka: an excerpt from Franz Kafka’s Letter to the Father. | Biographile
• “What real person trapped in this novel wouldn’t become a drug addict?” Christian Lorentzen offers a dissenting opinion on the much-praised A Little Life. | London Review of Books
• May our poems always be wild: on Ada Limón’s (National Book Award longlisted) Bright Dead Things. | The Millions
• Reflections on “the women who bleed with me, bodies agape, arms longing for love” (Kate Zambreno, Chris Kraus, Michelle Tea, Lidia Yuknavitch). | Entropy
• Jennine Capó Crucet on humor in literary writing, the first generation college experience, and literary shrines. | Fiction Writers Review
• In which parallels are drawn between the generous nobility of dolphins and a writer’s coffee breaks. | The Sewanee Review

Also on Literary Hub: A Literary Long Weekend in San Francisco, full of bookstores and booze · Translating the language of political debate into plain English · Five things to see at the Brooklyn Book Festival · At that late great fleabag, the Starlight Hotel

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