LitHub Daily: August 23, 2016

TODAY: In 1939, Sidney Howard dies; he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for “Gone with the Wind.”

• Margo Jefferson on the pleasures of poetry and (not) reading the Russians. | Literary Hub
• A masterpiece of Latin American literature finally appears in English: on Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama. | Literary Hub
• The dos and don’ts of writing about the disabled: Nicola Griffith on the need to go beyond empathy. | Literary Hub
• Caleb Carr lives in a very dark place: on growing up with the Beats, living on Mount Misery, and disappearing children. | Literary Hub
• A fall entertainment generator, which will recommend books (among other things) based on genres and feelings. | Vulture
• “The porousness of that border between what we can prove, what’s easily accessible, and what takes more face and openness—it was really interesting to me, how he handled that.” Teju Cole on the book that changed his life. | Men’s Journal
• The singular story held notes of the universal: On portrayals of the immigrant experience in Second Class Citizen, Behold the Dreamers and Americanah. | BuzzFeed Reader
• In which Leopoldine Core describes her face, her dogs, and why she writes about what she writes about. | The Believer Logger
• Not unlike today, “two thousand years ago, a new and unorthodox kind of book threatened to overturn the established order:” the mysterious codex. | BBC
• “Having a drink in the hotel bar with Luke the Shuttle Driver is almost enjoyable, because it’s like an anthropological experience.” A short story by Curtis Sittenfeld. | The New Yorker
• A Spanish publisher will release the indecipherable Voynich Manuscript, which “has led some of the smartest people down rabbit holes for centuries.” | The Washington Post
• “Groundbreaking literature relies on bookstores and booksellers to thrive.” Milkweed Editions is fundraising to launch its own independent bookstore. | Kickstarter

Also on Literary Hub: On the Barbizon Hotel and the women writers who lived there · Books making news this week: trilogies, triumphs, and the novel Trump should read · Who is your protector? “Green,” a story from Kirstin Allio’s collection Clothed, Female Figure

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