LitHub Daily: February 2, 2016

TODAY: In 1922, Ulysses is published on James Joyce’s 40th birthday.

• Matt Gallagher on why you don’t have to be a veteran to write about war. | Literary Hub
• Aaron Bady recommends 25 new books by African writers you should be excited about. | Literary Hub
• Fiction has no half-life: Tom Bissell’s introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest, in honor of its birthday yesterday. | The New York Times
• “But then the children came. And they were bad.” A short story by George Saunders. | The New Yorker
• Alexander Chee on the Bookternet, fruitful/frustrating work periods, and publishing a book as “digging a tunnel to freedom and arriving at a party.” | The Millions
• “It’s strange to keep confronting, in these stylistic ways, how you were constructed.” An interview with Margo Jefferson. | BOMB Magazine
• Books to look forward to this month and season. | Flavorwire, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Publishers Weekly
• Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, and other poets who are “making the genre cool again.” | Teen Vogue
• “I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression, and who are fighting back against it.” An interview with artist, journalist, and activist Molly Crabapple. | Guernica
• Penguin will add 46 new titles to their Little Black Classics series, including “intriguing, lesser known books” and works from “pioneering female authors.” | The Bookseller

Also on Literary Hub: David Shields on the glamorizing war photos of the New York Times · Books making news this week: winter reading edition · Utter madness: from Willful Disregard by Lena Andersson, trans. Sarah Death

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