LitHub Daily: August 29, 2016

TODAY: In 1632, the “father of liberalism” John Locke is born. 

• I love soap operas (and they made me a better writer): Deborah Shapiro on the genre’s throwback novelistic qualities. | Literary Hub
• Ann Patchett on stealing stories, book tours, and staying off twitter. | Literary Hub
• Memorializing greatness in sport is as complex as imagining one’s own immortality. | Literary Hub
• “‘It seems like every woman has to write about this at some point.’ Um, yeah, because it’s one of the most important things about being alive right now?” On Emily Witt, Moira Weigel, and other writers who address sex and dating in their work. | The New York Times
• Ian McEwan on his writerly fears, the importance of women readers, and taking the perspective of a fetus. | The Guardian
• A preview of fall books coming out from independent presses, including Graywolf, New Directions, and others. | Publishers Weekly
• “I like the idea of the reader being unsure about whether this voice they’re hearing is coming from this life or a more extreme and startling parallel.” An interview with Camille Rankine. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Welcome to Oliver Sacks Night, Dr. Sacks: Bill Hayes on attending a gay bar’s night honoring his partner. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• “I think it’s important for the young people who still live in Harlem to know that in their own neighborhood, blocks away from where they’re playing basketball… that a literary giant lived there.” On potentially transforming Langston Hughes’ home into an art center. | NPR
• Harmony Korine will adapt Alissa Nutting‘s “controversial and acclaimed” Tampa into a film. | The Playlist
• The first goddamn edition of The Catcher in the Rye, non-stop first edition about to burst into flames of On the Road, and other rare books for sale. | The New Yorker

Also on Literary Hub: A novel written with only the 483 words spoken by Ophelia: Scott Esposito in conversation with Paul Griffiths about let me tell you · Reading D. H. Lawrence on a remote Swedish island: Fredrik Sjöberg on parables, flies, and the sea · It ain’t Hollywood, it’s Mescalito: from Eve Babitz’s Slow Days, Fast Company

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