LitHub Daily: December 8, 2016

TODAY: In 1596, Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City. 

• How we write about work: on Dickens, office life, and tales of the precariat in contemporary fiction. | Literary Hub
• Keah Brown on the two books that saved her young life. | Literary Hub
• Turning a book into a movie is like making booze: Terry George on making In the Name of the Father with Jim Sheridan. | Literary Hub
• Reading out loud in a time of terror: for pleasure and for hope. | Literary Hub
• “Why did we ever pretend novels by straight white guys about straight white guys spoke for entire generations?” Tony Tulathimutte explains why there isn’t, and can’t be, a millennial novel. | The New York Times
• “Things have changed, but history is not erased by change, and the examples of the past still hold out new possibilities for all of us, opportunities to remake, for a new generation, the conditions from which we ourselves have benefited.” Zadie Smith on confronting reality and continuing to hope. | NYRB
• Athens, Berlin, Cape Town, and beyond: A selection of literary city guides. | Culture Trip
• From You Will Not Have My Hate to Fidel Castro’s memoir, a book for every month of 2016. | Signature Reads
• How the author of Water for Elephant’s scheme to fund the exoneration of an innocent man by driving up the prices of Hatchimals somehow backfired. | Los Angeles Times
• What can algorithms tell us about the stories we love to read? Literary criticism, apparently, is the next discipline to be lost to robot superiority. | Aeon
• I heard he lasted a long time: A short story by Emily Temple, recommended by Jane Alison. | Electric Literature

Also on Lit Hub: Marie Mutsuki Mockett writes a letter to her young son, dateline: Trump’s America · Bad guys who loved books: Mark David Chapman wasn’t the only one · From Amy Hassinger’s new novel, After the Dam

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