Lit Hub Daily: April 11, 2017

TODAY: In 1987, Primo Levi, chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, dies. His work, The Periodic Table (1975), was called the the best science book ever written by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 

• Ten years after he’s gone, the best of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing advice. | Literary Hub
• Sarah Gerard finds comfort in the face of death, thanks to a children’s classic. | Literary Hub
• The dark side of Melbourne: Paul French digs into the best of Aussie crime fiction. | Literary Hub
• In conversation with Durga Chew-Bose: “Writing affords me a space to have contradictions.” | Literary Hub
• What made you a writer? For Edie Meidav, it was an old pulp paperback of the Twilight Zone. | Literary Hub
• Colson Whitehead has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; other Arts & Letters award winners include Hisham Matar, Lynn Nottage, and Tyehimba Jess. | The Pulitzer Prizes
• Ron Howard is set to produce and direct an adaptation of J.D. Vance’s polarizing memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. | Deadline Hollywood
• Rebecca Mead profiles Margaret Atwood, a “buoyant doomsayer” who “takes evident satisfaction in providing an accurate diagnosis, even when the cultural prognosis is bleak.” | The New Yorker
• “I wanted to avoid writing about the expected topics when people talk about Florida.” An interview with Sarah Gerard. | The Brooklyn Rail
• As part of its annual State of the Libraries report, the ALA has announced the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2016, which include George, I Am Jazz, and Eleanor & Park. | American Library Association
• Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny will voice an X-Files audiobook, forthcoming this July. | Vulture
• Helen Rosner on the artistic legacy of Lucky Peach, which “completely changed the visual language of food media, full stop, no qualifier.”| Eater

Also on Lit Hub: 5 must-read titles from this past March you may have missed · Books making news this week: comedies, Christianity, and criticism · From August by Romina Paula, translated by Jennifer Croft.

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