
LitHub Daily: December 29, 2016
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1904, novelist, playwright, and critic Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu) is born.
- Lenny Letter’s second poetry issue features work by Natalie Diaz, Aziza Barnes, and more. | Lenny Letter
- Matthew Salesses curates 12 great books by immigrant writers “in a year where an anti-immigration candidate rode a virulently xenophobic campaign to the White House.” | VICE
- “There’s an allegory here about the consequences of believing the weasel words of a criminal (alleged), but the greater issue is how Quixote so tragically misread the situation in the first place.” On Don Quixote and the election. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- The damage done to the Hong Kong publishing industry is unprecedented: On the aftermath of Xi Jinping’s crackdown on free speech. | The Guardian
- “But here’s the thing. Maybe it’s time to get uncomfortable and upset. Maybe those feelings can be acted upon.” An interview with Emily Raboteau. | The Rumpus
- “It is a fable that appeals to our love of social advancement, a new life, fresh experience.” On (finally) rereading Charles Dickens. |The New Yorker
- David Galef and Len Kuntz on the state of flash fiction, “the very shortest fiction that still tells a complete story while also packing a wallop.” | Electric Literature
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