Lit Hub Daily: April 16, 2018

• After dozens of rejections it only takes one acceptance to make a writer. | Literary Hub
• Pola Oloixarac: Why I don’t write about the women in my family. | Literary Hub
• In praise of near-impossible-to-translate doorstopper novels, from Alfred Doblin to Olga Tokarczuk and more. | Literary Hub
• Read the poet behind Roberto Bolaño’s fictional poet Ulises Lima: Mario Santiago Papasquiaro. | Literary Hub
• Danez Smith wins the $20,000 Four Quartets Prize poetry, calls their mom. | Literary Hub
• In honor of its announcement later today, a look back at each of the 17 books that received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the 21st century (sorry, 2012). | Book Marks
• “When you talk about certain lives—the lives of people subjected to domination—you have to justify why you do it.” In conversation with Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith. | Document Journal
• “If life is everywhere, the labor of feeling is boundless. How to contain it?” Rivka Galchen on temporality and reality in the work of Bruno Schulz. | Full Stop
• Watch the trailers for an angsty Mary Shelley biopic starring Elle Fanning and a true crime thriller about teens stealing rare books starring Evan Peters. | Vulture, Melville House
• From The Monk of Mokha to Milk!, the most-anticipated food books of the spring. | Eater
• The five finalists for the 18th annual Young Lions Fiction Award have been announced. | NYPL
• Renowned sage Kanye West is writing a philosophy book entitled Break the Simulation. | Jezebel
• The head of the Swedish Academy has stepped down following criticism of the institution’s handling of a sexual abuse scandal. | NPR

Also on Literary Hub: So can James Comey write? 13 passages from his new Trump memoir · An AWP first-timer at 65: Barbara Berman stays young-at-heart in Tampa · Read from Rebekah Frumkin’s new novel, The Comedown.