Lit Hub Daily: March 22, 2018

TODAY: In 1916, J. R. R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt marry at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, England. 

• Teju Cole: “We are made of the all the things we have consumed.” Khalid Warsame in conversation with the author of Blind Spot. | Lit Hub
• Stop looking for one war story to make sense of all wars: Matt Young on the romanticized image of the warrior poet. | Lit Hub
• If you have any money left over from the Sylvia Plath auction earlier this week, here are 25 of the most expensive books on the Internet. | Lit Hub
• Fiction/Non/Fiction, episode 13: At the intersection of nationalism, religion, and social media. | Lit Hub
• Carmen Maria Machado on internalized misogyny, Rumaan Alam on capturing adolescence, and more: 5 book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
• The world isn’t completely terrible: Before his death, Bill Cunningham secretly wrote a memoir, and we’re all going to get to read it. | New York Times
• “It wasn’t until ‘getting it right’ proved impossible that I started tweaking the details.” George Saunders interviews Will Mackin. | EW
• On Conversations with Friends, Neon in Daylight, and Asymmetry, which “find the right language with which we can discuss the erotics of imbalance.” | The Baffler
• From poetry by Hieu Minh Nguyen to a newly translated Clarice Lispector novel, artist Sam McKinniss illustrates the 76th page of books forthcoming this season. | T Magazine
• Books are disappearing from Fine Arts libraries in schools across the country, prompting student and faculty uproar. | Hyperallergic
• “What can be gleaned from this mishmash of wacko talking points?” On a new book by Infowars “journalist” Jerome Corsi, whose Unfit for Command helped sink John Kerry’s presidential hopes back in 2004. | The Outline
• The nostalgia boom is coming for our cookbooks: reissues of classics like The Graham Kerr Cookbook, as well as several contemporary studies of vintage recipes, will hit shelves this spring. | Publishers Weekly

Also on Literary Hub: The 2018 Whiting Award winners: Tommy Pico, Weike Wang, and more… • On Buffalo’s Silo City reading series • From Chelsey Johnson’s new novel: read from Stray City.

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