Lit Hub Daily: November 19, 2018

• Before the Neapolitan novels, there was Sula—so why was only one of these an international phenomenon? | Lit Hub
• “The idea of precarity approaches a sense of the danger, violence and uncertainty that runs through people’s lives.” On socially responsible writing in a time of unmitigated disaster. | Lit Hub
• The good, the bad, and the delicious: 20 unexpected literary cookbooks to inspire you this Thanksgiving (maybe). | Lit Hub
• Glimpses of a transformative primary school in a still-divided Johannesburg. | Lit Hub
• “Addiction of that kind was written off as an affliction of others.” When a nationwide killer hits close to home. | Lit Hub
• “Pain can be as ineffable and mysterious and internal as love.” Alethea Black, Michele Lent Hirsch, Sonya Huber, Abby Norman, Julie Rehmeyer, and Esme Weijun Wang on what it means to write about women’s pain. | Lit Hub
• “Separated by 146 years from the events of the case, I waded through the weeds of time and neglect, looking for some tangible, definite connection.” David Kimmel on a family crime, and the limits of knowing. | CrimeReads
• The first reviews of every Margaret Atwood novel: featuring Ursula K. Le Guin, Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, and more. | Book Marks
• William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride, has died. | New York Times
• Remember the Scholastic book fairs? They might not be quite as magical as you recall. | The Atlantic
• Tennis, postmodernism, the Internet: Here’s the first English translation of an interview between David Foster Wallace and Spanish writer Eduardo Lago. |Electric Literature
• “It’s like in my generation we were culturally trained to be misogynists, homophobes and racists.” Read an interview with George Saunders. | The Guardian
• “So climate change and capitalism are two parts of the same problem; they are effect and cause.” Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on how neoliberal market capitalism is “chewing up the biosphere”—and what can be done. | BuzzFeed
• On “the meteoric rise and political urgency of Poland’s pre-eminent novelist,” Olga Tokarczuk. | The Calvert Journal
• Is Beto O’Rourke . . .  the new Knausgaard? | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: Shobha Rao in conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That’s Another Story • The forgotten fairy tale genius of Édouard Laboulaye • Read a story from Amparo Dávila’s collection The Houseguest