LitHub Daily: February 10, 2016

TODAY: In 1957, Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder dies.

• Amy Gustine’s advice for writing what you don’t know. | Literary Hub
• Francisco Goldman in conversation with Idra Novey about violence, humor, and North American naiveté. | Literary Hub
• “I was a world removed from the beautiful, spangled, over-rewarded life I’d been mired in, and almost immediately, to my utter astonishment, I started to get productive writing done.” John Wray recalls moving to New York. | BuzzFeed Books
• Nikkita Oliver and Danez Smith performed on the Late Show; Macklemore was there too. | Rolling Stone
• Italy’s leading TV production company has announced they are making a series out of the Neapolitan novels, so sign up for your Italian classes now. | Hollywood Reporter
• “By translating something you’re implicitly recommending it.” An interview with the translator of Roberto Bolaño and Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer. | Broadly
• “Why do we like what we like? What’s the relation between beauty and truth?” A.O. Scott on tackling big questions. | Electric Literature
• “It’s a bit surprising—given the trend to read exclusively women or non-white authors—more attention isn’t given to indigenous populations.” Become familiar with some indigenous writers through a new blog series. | Ploughshares
• Multiple acts of form and function, threaded together with theme: Four essay collections worth reading. | The Millions
• “By two in the morning, I was becoming familiar with the physicality of the all-nighter.” Carmen Maria Machado on staying up all night. | Catapult

Also on Literary Hub: A Phone Call from Paul: Jhumpa Lahiri on family, banality, and the art of conversation · Librarian Confidential: Polli Kenn on why you really need a library card · Two new poems by Fred Moten · The Hunger: from Greg Baxter’s Munich Airport, now out in paperback

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