LitHub Daily: August 13, 2015

TODAY: In 1946, H.G. Wells, predictor of lasers, cell phones, genetic engineering, automatic doors, and interplanetary war, dies. 

• Tanwi Nandini Islam on writing about diaspora, the family you choose, and transnational trans characters. | Literary Hub
• A transformation, not a distortion of the truth: Lydia Davis on Lucia Berlin, the mother of auto-fiction. | The New Yorker
• An essay on contemporary novels that T.S. Eliot’s mom forgot to forward to his editor. | The Times Literary Supplement
• Another unfinished manuscript by a famous dead author (J.R.R. Tolkien)! This time there is incest, suicide, and the potential for at least three films. | The Guardian
• Russia, always one step ahead, published manuscripts so undiscovered that even their authors were unaware of their existence. | Publishing Perspectives
• Publishers are adapting to the prevalence of phone reading; we have yet to hear about the impact these new technologies will have on looking dreamy on public transportation. | Wall Street Journal
• Correcting Obama’s short story about the assassination of Osama bin Laden: on Seymour Hersh and media paranoia. | n+1
• Alexandra Kleeman on the fairy polish of MFAs, male fumbling vs. female reflexivity, and pink slime, a non-fictional entity. | The Awl
• What do you do, so I have a context for who you are? On the fine line between potential and failure. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Also on Literary Hub: Michele Filgate on writers and their favorite tools · Young love in southernmost Georgia: an excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Ice Palace

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