LitHub Daily: August 19, 2015

TODAY: In 1936, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is executed at the start of the Spanish Civil War. 

• The literary genealogy of Lucia Berlin: American women, masters of the short story. | Literary Hub
• “There was never a sort of star quality to any of this.” Renata Adler on fear, embarrassment, and the peril of writing. | BuzzFeed
• The point itself seems increasingly obscure: on re-reading into Joan Didion. | The New Yorker
• Today in honoring our literary past: a virtual recreation of Jazz Age Harlem allows users to immerse themselves in the Harlem Renaissance. | Hyperallergic
• Today in soiling our literary past: mistranslations of Pablo Neurda have caused a personal poetic crisis; an updated version of Don Quixote has been decried as “a crime against literature.” | The Guardian, The Telegraph
• Metafictional games and authorial responsibility in Prajwal Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee. | Public Books
• The Scofield, which offers homage to The Dial and an opportunity to transcend loneliness, has launched. | The Scofield
• There was a part of me that could have lived like that: a short story by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. | Guernica
• Showtime is making a comedy series based on Mat Johnson’s Loving Day, which will now compete for awards against the likes of The Big Bang Theory. | Deadline

Also on Literary Hub: Andrew Malan Milward went to college to play basketball but left wanting to be a writer · The many pleasures of destroying a good book · Read a story by Lucia Berlin

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