LitHub Daily: December 30, 2015

TODAY: In 2003, John Gregory Dunne dies, an event later memorialized in Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. 

• We counted down the 50 biggest literary stories of the year: at long last, the top five stories of 2015. | Literary Hub
• Literary Hub staff picks our favorite stories of the year. | Literary Hub
• A belated holiday gift from Lenny: their Winter Poetry Issue, which includes work by Morgan Parker, Ariana Reines, Chelsea Martin, and Diamond Sharp. | Lenny
• Something I have to bleed for: Alt Lit names to look for in 2016. | Dazed
• The inaugural installment of Otherworldly, N. K. Jemisin’s new science fiction and fantasy review column. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Bodies becoming a body politic: on Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Abstraction vs. articulate prose: On the fiction of Michel Tournier and the novel of ideas. | The Rumpus
• “This is the vanguard of slow-minded liberal whiteness, myopia imposed through righteousness. My freedom of expression is to acknowledge that.” Fariha Róisín reflects on the year in Islamaphobia. | Hazlitt
• As the end of the year approaches, the end of the year lists are getting more creative. | Conversational Reading
• Barnes & Noble is considering serving alcohol and not shutting down the Barnes & Noble Review; it is just taking a holiday break, like the rest of us. | LA Times, The New Republic

Also on Literary Hub: Barry Day on Noel Coward, the reluctant screenwriter · The snowiest of our winter reading: from James Joyce’s “The Dead”

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