Lit Hub Daily: May 3, 2017

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1937, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 
  • The many ways in which we are wrong about Jane Austen. | Literary Hub
  • Not finishing my novel would have ruined my life: Lisa Ko on the long game that is writing. | Literary Hub
  • The short fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubled final years. | Literary Hub
  • Stephen King on Hannibal Lecter, the great fictional monster of our time. | Book Marks
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen on “American ignorance of Vietnamese history, culture and politics” and how Vietnamese literature can serve as a corrective. | The New York Times
  • The spending bill that Congress is expected to vote on this week has undone Trump’s original proposed cuts to the NEA and NEH. | Los Angeles Times
  • “I don’t . . . enjoy things naturally. I’m uncomfortable when things are going well.” An interview with Scaachi Koul. | Hazlitt
  • On the dark(er) side of the perpetually dark Edward Gorey. | Literary Hub
  • To combat rising Islamophobia, Muslim-American kids need to see more of themselves in pop culture. | Literary Hub
  • Tor Books has announced a new experimental imprint, Tor Labs, that will launch with a 14-episode noir science fiction audiodrama. | Publishers Weekly
  • “I feel like the publishing industry had its first opportunity to fight the Trump administration and it failed miserably.” Melville House’s Dennis Johnson and Julia Felischaker on Amazon, picking fights, and social media. | The Verge
  • In the end, everyone will have a mugshot: on the birth of the police. | Literary Hub
  • Record reviews are scrawny things up against a patently racist regime designed to gull the down-pressed middle class into underwriting the oppressive superrich: Robert Christgau considers the political potential of music criticism. | The Paris Review
  • Five pieces of writing advice from Philip Schultz. | Literary Hub
  • “I would give my mom glasses of prosecco and then read scenes out loud to her, which often resulted in her becoming totally hysterical.” An interview with Patricia Lockwood. | Chicago Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: In honor of the PEN World Voices Festival this week, Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on gender and power • Bookselling in the 21st century: the exhausting false intimacies of life in retail • From The Lights by Brian McGreevy

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