LitHub Daily: August 17, 2016

TODAY: In 1932, Trinidadian Nobel Prize winning British writer V.S. Naipaul is born. 

• It’s food day on Lit Hub: How is reviewing a restaurant like reviewing a book? Critics John Freeman and Robert Sietsema compare notes · Why The Futurist Cookbook was the first lifestyle blog · Five fictional vegetarians who defy stereotypes · What do chefs read? · Who’s meaner: book critics or restaurant reviewers? · How to arrange your kitchen, according to Julia Child · Ten literary dishes from great books.  | Literary Hub
• “How did my father go from being an illiterate, nicotine addicted goatherd, and functionally illiterate immigrant, to being–to becoming–the first Indian headmaster in England?” Bhanu Kapil’s Goddard College commencement speech. | The Writer in the World
• Nicole Dennis-Benn on how the Bible could be better, the writerly nature of daydreaming, and the art that inspires her. | Flavorwire
• With the Trump campaign and Brexit getting credit for drawing on populist angst, Coriolanus deserves a second look: Re-examining Shakespeare’s “anti-democratic” play. | Guernica
• “I’m obsessed with tearing apart their nonsensical oppositions — in this case, it’s self-absorbed millennials vs. generous boomers, and even the vanity of people who write about the ‘I’ vs. the maturity of writers who focus on ‘you’ or ‘we.’” An interview with Kristin Dombek. | Electric Literature
• “Pariahness more likely meant every bad girl from every movie with bad girls. Red lipstick, fishnets, heels, leather, a cigarette maybe with a holder, platinum blonde or else jet black.” A short story by Porochista Khakpour. | Bennington Review
• On the rediscovery of Russian literary sensation Teffi, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Nadja Spiegelman on capturing the small important moments of being a woman, why there are so many different versions of our stories, and her Paris. | Signature Reads
• Rose was her name and would she have been Rose if her name had not been Rose: Reading Gertrude Stein’s children’s book. | Slate

Also on Literary Hub: How to arrange your kitchen, according to Julia Child · The ultimate literary ten-course meal from chef Evan Hanczor · The olfactory connection to our grandparents: from Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw by Elissa Altman

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