Lit Hub Daily: March 14, 2017

TODAY: In 1887, Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher and founder of the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Co., is born.

• “Enjoying a glass of wine with a book is not ‘too white.’” Noelle Santos is on a mission to bring a bookstore-bar to the South Bronx. | Literary Hub
• Can trees save the planet? (Maybe. After we’re gone.)  | Literary Hub
• Librarian David Wright on an adult story time that almost went terribly wrong.  | Literary Hub
• The New York Antiquarian Book Fair finally makes into the 21st century.  | Literary Hub
• S.E. Hinton’s beloved novel The Outsiders turns 50 this month and will soon have its own museum, an initiative spearheaded by superfan Danny O’Connor. | The New York Times
• “A haircut is an intimacy, a delicacy, and a lifeline.” Bryan Washington on the transformative magic of a great barbershop (and a crisp fade). | The Paris Review
• Having wrapped filming on her adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, director Ava DuVernay shares film stills and behind-the-scenes images of cast and crew members. | Entertainment Weekly
• “We can rewrite our own dystopian reality.” On the usefulness—and limits—of interpreting Trump’s presidency through dystopian fiction. | The Nation
• A new Isabel Allende novel about the far-reaching consequences of a snowy car accident in Brooklyn is coming this fall. | Simon & Schuster
• Porochista Khakpour, Alexandra Kleeman, Durga Chew-Bose, and 28 other women recommend the books every woman should read in her twenties. | NYLON
• We Eat Our Own author Kea Wilson on surveillance, bookselling, and watching horror films. | The Rumpus

Also on Lit Hub: Ariel Levy in conversation with Bethanne Patrick on her new memoir · Five books making news: Antiheroines and alternative La La Land · From Chilean writer Diego Zúñiga’s new novel, Camanchaca.

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