Lit Hub Daily: June 15, 2018

• FATHER’S DAY IS UPON US: Harmony Holiday hears the sound of black voices and recalls her father · Kristopher Jansma on having a new book and a new baby at the same time · Susan Shapiro comes to terms with a father who disapproved of her writing · What happens when your dad reads the book you wrote about him? · Meghan MacLean Weir on growing up as the preacher’s daughter · 13 famous writers and their dads.
• From Stephen King to Ottessa Moshfegh, 8 of the worst fathers in modern suspense. | CrimeReads
• On the estranged wife and daughter of the scandalous Lord Byron, who “could not escape fame, they could hope only to avoid notoriety.” | London Review of Books
• “More boys need to read female authors; more male critics need to write on female authors; more female critics need to be asked to write, period.” Anthony Domestico asks: why is book criticism so gendered? | Commonweal
• Fabulism, misogyny, and the whole Junot Díaz controversy: a profile of Carmen Maria Machado, whose collection Her Body and Other Parties was recently optioned for television. | Vulture
• From politically savvy vampires to the memoir of an infamous investigative journalist, the best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Sarah Weinman on the time Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of the world’s most famous fictional detective, helped exonerate an innocent man convicted of murder. | New Republic
• “The translation of African literature into African languages is the exception rather than the norm.” On Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, language warrior. | Asymptote
• On Getting Word, an oral history archive for descendants of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved community, which offers “a new interpretive approach that centers the experience of the enslaved.” | Smithsonian Magazine
• Lisa Halliday, Tommy Orange, Melissa Broder, our own Dan Sheehan, and more: the Center for Fiction has announced the longlist for their 2018 First Novel Prize. | Center for Fiction

Also on Literary Hub: Owning your discomfort: Porochista Khakpour on living with the body · What we loved this week, from Planet of the Apes to Madeleine L’Engle · Read from Dorthe Nors’s new novel, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal