Lit Hub Daily: January 5, 2018

• 15 books you should read in January. | Literary Hub
• They tried to ban Fahrenheit 451 and replace it with… my book. David Williams on receiving the worst kind of endorsement from a Florida woman. | Literary Hub
• The effect is like a long Sunday dinner with the entire family: On Julia Alvarez’s beloved debut novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. | Book Marks
• In response to a cease and desist letter from Donald Trump’s lawyer, Henry Holt and Co. has moved the release date of Michael Wolff’s White House tell-all from next week to today. | Washington Post, Deadline
• What you need to know about Zora Neale Hurston—and why you should be reading her in 2018. | Shondaland
• “For young people who are very stressed about the future. . . my big quest is for them to remain hopeful.” Jacqueline Woodson has been named the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. | The New York Times
• Emojis, too, must have multiple layers of meaning: Morgan Parker and Adam Valen Levinson Skype about modern communication, its (lack of) nuance, and the internet. | The Paris Review
• “I don’t want to become a person who just provokes for the sake of it.” An interview with Eli Valley, “less Garry Trudeau than Dank Meme Stash shitposter.” | Guernica
• “I find myself wondering, fleetingly, if I should present the short film I am working on for the museum under a pseudonym myself.” Lily Cole responds to author Nick Holland’s decision to quit the Brontë Society following her appointment. | The Guardian
• J.K. Rowling now has her own Scottish pub, to the chagrin of (some) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans. | Food & Wine

Also on Literary Hub: James Han Mattson tries to think like a 14-year-old • Chris Yates reckons with a self-imposed deadline • Read from The Woman in the Window  by AJ Finn