LitHub Daily: February 22, 2016

TODAY: In 1925, Edward Gorey, beloved proto-goth, is born.

• Can literature heal the scars of a nation? Nayomi Munaweera reports from Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival. | Literary Hub
• Paul Mason explains why there is no market-driven solution to our climate catastrophe. | Literary Hub
• Yaa Gyasi, Emma Cline, and other new writers to look forward to this spring. | Barnes & Noble
• “My children loved Hero Boy and his dead zombie eyes.” Zadie Smith on belief, puppets, and the uncanny valley. | NYRB
• Colm Tóibín on the posthumous reputation making, and closeting, of Henry James. | The Guardian
• “Though the door wasn’t exactly closed in my face, I still have reservations about the instances I’m invited in.” On writing as a critic of color. | Canadian Art
• “Both books have fans, but I think it’s safe to say that no twenty-year-old will ever stick either of them in his or her backpack alongside Infinite Jest when they go trekking in Nepal.” On David Foster Wallace’s other books. | The New Yorker
• “I just spent so much of my time as a kid answering the question: What Are You?” An interview with Alexander Chee. | BOMB Magazine
• It was a sad day for poetry when Ezra Pound discovered Confucius: on volume three of A. David Moody’s biography of Ezra Pound. | The New Criterion
• Living in a “magical nation:” On Anjan Sundaram’s challenge to the predominant narrative of Rwanda, Bad News. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Literary Hub: 30 Books in 30 Days: Tess Taylor on Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude · Penn Book Center: since 1962, a resource for students and Philadelphians · Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe, language, and “Afropolitans” · From The Other Woman, by Therese Bohman, translated by Marlaine Delargy

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