LitHub Daily: December 13, 2016

• A stranger thing actually happened: on Trump, the Reagan Years, and the dangers of TV nostalgia. | Literary Hub
• Fascism, the ultimate writer’s block: how writers are getting back to work. | Literary Hub
• Laurie Sheck grapples with the infinite internet. | Literary Hub
• Ask the Publicists: Why would anybody care about my book when the world is falling apart? | Literary Hub
• Our book review aggregator has relaunched with a new design (and many other new features). | Book Marks
• “My hope is that, in the spaces between all those layers, a conversation between women of different generations slowly emerges.” Valeria Luiselli translates (and annotates) her mother’s conversation with a female ex-combatant of the FARC. | Guernica
• Prose is a public language and poetry is a private language: An interview with Mary Ruefle. | The Paris Review
• The Guardian remembers Elie Wiesel, “a true student of life,” and Jenny Diski, “a great debunker.” | The Guardian
• Téa Obreht on David Attenborough’s nature documentaries, which “put humans right in their place: small enough to swim in a blue whale’s veins, and yet, by 1970, responsible for that species’ near-extinction.” | The New Yorker
• Announcing this year’s 35 Over 35—a collection of remarkable debuts by authors over the age of 35. | 35 Over 35
• heart showed night another night: Fiction by Leila Aboulela. | Enkare Review
• “What I know of tenderness is what I know of violation,/the restless insect of touch and our end.” Two poems by Natalie Eilbert. | The Lifted Brow

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