Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2018

TODAY: In 1953, Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

• It’s been a long week: here are 20 of the best literary adaptions on Netflix (if you’ve had enough with books). | Lit Hub
• In terms of animal welfare, so-called DIY hunting is more humane than farming. | Lit Hub
• A sparsely stocked, data-driven, brick-and-mortar bookstore can never compete with the independents—so what, exactly, is the point? | Lit Hub
• The Nobel Prize for Literature will not be awarded in 2018 in the wake of sexual assault allegations. | The Guardian
• From Melissa Broder to Tracy K. Smith, the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Scandals, serial killers, and spies: 16 true crime books to read in spring 2018. | CrimeReads
• “Literature, like the economy, withers when it closes itself off from the world.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on how inclusivity will improve (not diminish) the established literary canon. | The Washington Post
• “He exists off the literary grid, which is to say that he lives in the real world and has a real job…” Jonathan Dee on the novelist Sergio de la Pava. | The New Yorker
• “The factory is a crime scene, the victims are the workers; the hunt is on to catch the ‘criminals,’ the capitalist exploiters.” Reading Marx’s Das Kapital as a Victorian crime novel. | The Times Literary Supplement
• The awesomeness of creation, followed by the terror of responsibility: Merve Emre on Jacqueline Rose’s Mothers and the undervalued labor of mothering. | The Nation
• “The obvious truth—that I couldn’t stand other people’s children and that’s why I didn’t want any myself—was a huge taboo.” Kyoko Mori on raising birds (and not children). | The Rumpus
• “We have your dog. We want $5,000 to give it back.” Sarah Weinman on stolen champ Kid Boots Ace and the history of dognapping. | Topic
• What are the origins of poetry voice, in which “natural conversational rhythms are replaced by a slow, lilting delivery, like a very boring ocean.” | Atlas Obscura

Also on Literary Hub: City of poetry: in Rome, finding 2,000 years of verse around every corner · What we loved this week Lit Hub picks, from cherry blossoms to neo-Westerns · Read from Francis Ponge’s classic novel, Nioque of the Early-Spring.

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