LitHub Daily: August 24, 2016

TODAY: In 1899, Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges is born in Buenos Aires. 

• How to write while traveling: Andrés Neuman’s fragments from a Latin American book tour. | Literary Hub
• Tracy K. Smith on God, poetry, and parenting in New York City. | Literary Hub
• The woman who launched a newspaper during WWII: on the messy first issue of Alicia Patterson’s Newsday. | Literary Hub
• “I was obliged to address my favorite detectives with dismissive authority:” Patti Smith on her cameo in The Killing and recommending books. | The New Yorker
• Truman Capote’s ashes will be auctioned off; the auction house behind the sale asserts that “it’s absolutely fine because it really embodies what Truman Capote was and what he loved to do.” | The Guardian
• “I firmly believe that how one perceives the world in any given moment depends on the language in which that moment is experienced.” Ilan Stavans on self-translation, language, and epistemology. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Hannah Black on the trashcan of contemporary art, the correlation between synesthesia and the Fisher-Price alphabet set, and managing her ambivalence. | Hazlitt
• “This isn’t some dreaded worthy cause. Actively seeking work from under-represented groups is one of the most effective ways of giving publishing a much-needed shot in the arm.” An interview with Man Booker International Prize-winning translator and founder of Tilted Axis Press, Deborah Smith. | Conversational Reading
• “When I wrote this essay, I remember saying that I really hope that this essay becomes obsolete.” Garnette Cadogan on his contribution to The Fire This Time. | VICE
• I went to the opera and God was not there: A republished poem by Anne Sexton, introduced by Fríða Ísberg. | The Times Literary Supplement
• A Little Life has been optioned as a limited series, and Hanya Yanagihara has invited its Facebook fans to weigh in on the casting (resulting in an overwhelming demand for Eddie Redmayne). | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: Islamophobia in the trial of Adnan Syed: Rabia Chaudry on America’s anti-Muslim industry · The Grumpy Librarian: books with allegorical animals and a lot of sex · You’re Adam Driver! From Marni Jackson’s Don’t I Know You?

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