Lit Hub Daily: March 13, 2018

• “Letting myself experience the joy of transitioning feels really powerful.” Mallory Ortberg talks to Nicole Chung about writing, feminism, and getting through a rough year. | Literary Hub
• What writing rule would you break? For Laura van den Berg it’s “drown your darlings.” | Literary Hub
• Citizens at leisure, soldiers at war: Joel Meyerowitz’s Vietnam-era photographs of a divided America. | Literary Hub
• Ali Smith, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood and more:
  10 brilliant retellings of classical myth. | Literary Hub
• From Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair to Lynne Tillman’s first novel in 12 years, 5 books that are making news this week. | Book Marks
• Jenny Erpenbeck and Susan Bernofsky and Ahmed Saadawi and Jonathan Wright are among the writer-translator duos longlisted for this year’s Man Booker International Prize. | The Man Booker Prize
• “The theme of resistance, and writing in prison, is eternal.” An interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. | The Guardian
• “It’s like watching a live birth—the moment teeming with infinite possibility.” Morgan Parker on the moment she can’t stop thinking about: Kanye West going off-script at the Hurricane Katrina telethon. | The Cut
• What exactly makes a “book town”? Bookselling tourist destinations from New York to South Korea to Finland are a bibliophile’s dream. | Atlas Obscura
• “I want to think about images of sadness that we borrow from.” Kate Zambreno on grief, Claudia Rankine, and the paintings of Marlene Dumas. | Affadavit
• “Coming of age with the b-boys, break dancers, and kids who graffiti-bombed subway cars, these scribes connected Ralph Ellison to Eric B, James Baldwin to bling, contextualizing the hip-hop generation and all its innovation.” How a group of journalists turned hip-hop into a literary movement. | Pitchfork

Also on Literary Hub: Esme Weijung Wang reunites with an old favorite • There are no wrong answers to the Lit Hub author questionnaire • Lynne Tillman’s new novel: Read from Men and Apparitions.