LitHub Daily: February 1, 2017

TODAY: In 1902, poet, playwright, activist, and columnist Langston Hughes is born. 

• Mark Greif on how Thoreau would handle Trump. | Literary Hub
• 15 books by Mexican-American writers that make America greater. | Literary Hub
• Pooja Makijhani on the Asian detective novel’s evolution from racist caricature to authentic representation. | Literary Hub
• Laura Pritchett on the many stories of the West, from the front lines of climate change. | Literary Hub
• “Language matters and sometimes, like the word diversity, it becomes an empty container for whatever people want to fill it with.” The full text of Roxane Gay’s keynote speech from the ABA’s Winter Institute. | Publishers Weekly
• On Dr. Seuss, political cartoonist and “America’s first anti-Fascist children’s writer.” | The Atlantic
• “What does it mean to come of age in modern dystopia, alongside the contemporary parallel forces of the Internet and globalization?” On recent bildungsromans by Joni Murphy, Natasha Stag, and Tommy Pico. | The New Inquiry
• “It’s very difficult to invent shocking things, because everything is shocking now.” An interview with Riad Sattouf, author and illustrator of The Arab of the Future. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Young people from Greenland, they drink and rave and fuck and kiss: On the breakout success and striking modernity of Greenlandic writer Niviaq Korneliussen. | The New Yorker
• “She was always telling him, you can’t understand everything.” An excerpt from Jesse Ruddock’s novel, Shot-Blue. | BOMB Magazine
• Go trot with love: Erotica author Chuck Tingle will donate all the proceeds from his most recent work, Redacted In The Butt By Redacted Under The Tromp Administration, to the ACLU. | The A.V. Club

 

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