LitHub Daily: December 3, 2015

TODAY: In 1947, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway. 

• Marlon James is not the Updike of Jamaica: John Freeman talks to the Man Booker Prize winner about the year that was. | Literary Hub
• On the random discovery of a million-dollar box of comic books in a closet. | Literary Hub
• “I asked myself what the condition of white life might be. I wrote ‘complacence’ on a blank page.” Eula Biss on white privilege and debt. | The New York Times Magazine
• Inspired by Sally Mann’s Hold Still and “vision of her native South,” Hilton Als curates a selection of her photographs. | Vogue
• The Latin American literature of biblioklepts, bibliomaniacs, and bibliophiles beyond Roberto Bolaño. | Full Stop
• How London inspired Moby-Dick and a horrible pun (calling Queen Victoria’s companion “The Prince of Whales.”) | New Statesman
• “‘The quality of the Paris agreement equals the quality of life for the most vulnerable.’ Or the quantity of death.” Rebecca Solnit reports from the Paris climate summit. | Harper’s Magazine
• Penguin Classics author Morrissey has won an award for his first novel, source of the now-infamous “bulbous salutation.” | The Telegraph
• A first look at the art for and organizing principles behind Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther series. | The Atlantic
• Publishing father figure Michael Pietsch calmly and once again assuages our collective existential crisis. | The Wall Street Journal
• The editors of The New York Times Book Review pick the 10 best books of the year. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Ten great books by women overlooked this year · On Brooklyn and how to read a movie like a book · Fifty years later: John Williams’s Stoner

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