LitHub Daily: December 10, 2015

TODAY: 1920, writer Clarice Lispector is born Chaya Lispector in a shtetl in Ukraine. 

• Siri Hustvedt on gendered literature and why crying is manly when Knausgaard does it. | Literary Hub
• The last of our PEN Literary Awards longlist announcements: presenting the longlists for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and Translation Prize. | Literary Hub
• In the latest Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber calls Corey Doctorow to discuss poverty, privacy, and moving to America. | Literary Hub
• President Obama, a known bibliophile, has revealed Fates and Furies to be his favorite book of 2015. | People
• The story behind Gabriel García Márquez’s discovery by Carmen Balcells and the instantaneous conception of One Hundred Years of Solitude. | Vanity Fair
• Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, and other writers join PEN in protesting the illegal house arrest of Chinese poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. | PEN International
• In which Wayne Koestenbaum imagines he would love Twitter, prescribes an antidote to logorrhea (compression), and envisions his next tunnel of words. | Tin House
• Investigating the promising but prematurely ended career of Hughes Allison, one of America’s pioneering black crime writers. | The New Republic
• From the Salem Witch Trials to McCarthyism to the present: The Crucible could be a Trump allegory. | Signature Reads
• Repurposing literature as management shibboleth: Is reading a good business investment? | The Baffler
• A selection of ten incredible poems written by queer people of color this year. | Lambda Literary

Also on Literary Hub: Tim Flannery writes from COP 21 about the agreement humanity needs to make to reverse climate change · Matthew Neill Null on Mark Costello, the lost legend of Iowa City · From Jean-Philippe Blondel’s The 6:41 to Paris, translated by Alison Anderson

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