Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2017

TODAY: In 1909, Min Thu Wun, poet, writer, and scholar who help launched the Khit-San literary movement, is born.

Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American literature: a primer from Viet Thanh Nguyen. | Literary Hub
Kathleen Donohoe, of Brooklyn, returns to discover her hometown is crammed with writers. | Literary Hub
Lydia Peelle on the tensions of war and motherhood. | Literary Hub
When every word is an act of resistance: Renee Macalino Rutledge finds her voice. | Literary Hub
We see this human business as an angel does, looking down: Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’ first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. | The New York Times
“You can always survive bad times more than you think you can when they start, when ‘thus bad begins.’” A conversation with Javier Marías. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Emily Witt on sexuality’s resistance to commodification, self-help as an alibi for desire, and the importance of questioning why you like what you like. | Work in Progress
Another piece on the death of the novel (or, more specifically, “on the decline in the public’s investment in literature as a cultural phenomenon.”) | Overland
On last words, death poetry, and what traditions around dying can reveal about a culture. | The Paris Review
Understanding the nuances and complexities involved in the making of a movement: On Wesley Lowery’s They Can’t Kill Us All. | The Nation
#IReadIndie has launched to “draw attention to big books from smaller publishers across the country.” | Workman Publishing

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