Lit Hub Daily: October 29, 2018

TODAY: In 1905, English writer Henry Green is born.
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• Sarah Rainsford follows the trail of Our Man in Havana to uncover some of Graham Greene’s Cuban haunts. | Lit Hub
• Shiny new millennium, same damn series: the 10 books that defined the aughts. | Lit Hub
• “It could be said that [any work of Contemporary Art] was created as the object of sardonic description.” César Aira on why art (and literature) needs more sarcastic critics. | Lit Hub
• Meet National Book Award in Young Peoples Lit finalists M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin and Elizabeth Acevedo. | Lit Hub
• “I just wanna do hoodrat stuff with my friends.” Donald Quist on the Internet celebrity of Latarian Milton, and life for young black boys at a crossroads. | Lit Hub
• Be the first to see the trailer for Becoming Astrid, a new biopic about the early life of Astrid Lindgren. | Lit Hub
• Psychos, slashers, and serial killers, oh my! Film scholar Darryl Jones looks at the many modern visions of monstrosity. | CrimeReads
• Some Like it Dark: Heather Cleary recommends four haunting books in translation for the Halloween season. | Book Marks
• “I refuse to become an invisible woman, hiding away, like the protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, in some underground refuge.” Gabrielle Bellot on empathy, desire, and resisting erasure as a trans woman. | NYRB
• A never-before-seen short story by Sylvia Plath will be published in January. | The Guardian
• “The goal was just to read and do my thing. Plain and simple.” Read an interview with LeVar Burton. | Vice
• Your favorite inspirational Lin-Manuel Miranda tweets will be compiled in an illustrated book. Illustrator Jonny Sun talks about working with the Hamilton star. | NPR
• A new literary award in India, the JCB Prize, has been awarded to Benny Daniel for his novel Jasmine Days. | Publishing Perspectives
• “It felt like a dangerous thing to do—completely blow up the structure—but it was necessary.” Read a profile of Booker Prize finalist Daisy Johnson. | Entertainment Weekly
• “What writer doesn’t draw from their own lived experience?” Olivia Laing on autofiction, Chris Kraus, and the blurring of authorial boundaries. | Five Books

Also on Lit Hub: Laird Hunt on the women at the center of his novels. • The thin line between liberalism and totalitarianism • Read from John Fosse’s collection, Scenes From a Childhood (tr. Damion Searls).

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