LitHub Daily: December 7, 2015

TODAY: In, 1873, Willa Cather is born. 

• Ivan Sršen on the beautiful darkness of Zagreb, and the noir writing it has inspired. | Literary Hub
• All week we’re announcing the longlists for the PEN Literary Awards: today, the longlists for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham and PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Awards. | Literary Hub
• “I’ve no stake in my being thought of as a writer.” Gordon Lish on the heroising of Raymond Carver, the production of New Fiction, and approaching the sublime. | The Guardian
• To outdo Twitter Fiction, Wally Lamb’s next book will be released exclusively as a book app. | The New York Times
• The best nonfiction and academic books of 2015. | Entropy, Flavorwire
• Colm Tóibín on the “strange, bitter heart” and writing of Clarice Lispector. | NYRB
• The bidding begins at $16.95: On The Story of My Teeth, Respiración artificial, and Mexican literature. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• True to form, Garth Risk Hallberg’s Year in Reading is significantly longer than everyone else’s. | The Millions
• “No writer has a keener eye for the ways in which Hollywood is ensnared in its own myth making.” Stephanie LaCava on Eve’s Hollywood. | The Paris Review
• “It is easy to lose things in a blank space.” Joanna Walsh writes postcards from two hotels in Mexico. | Catapult

Also on Literary Hub: WORD Bookstore, a bit of something for everyone · We went to the annual Gin Mingle even though we weren’t invited · A visit to the Tom of Finland compound, from Andrew Durbin’s MacArthur Park

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