Lit Hub Daily: February 23, 2017

TODAY: In 1949, César Aira, Argentine writer and translator, is born.

• Mary Miller’s fiction is very good at explaining America: a profile. | Literary Hub
• The seven fictional planets we really hope NASA discovered yesterday. | Literary Hub
• Karen Brown on growing up in the wilds of suburban Connecticut, from key parties to séances. | Literary Hub
• Your literary guide to this Sunday’s Oscars. | Literary Hub
• Literary awards season is upon us: the Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists have been announced, as well as several of the 2017 PEN America Literary Award winners. | Los Angeles Times, PEN America
• Ibram X. Kendi has “selected the most influential books on race and the black experience published in the United States for each decade of the nation’s existence,” from Thomas Jefferson to Michelle Alexander. | The New York Times
• Molly McArdle profiles Roxane Gay, who “does the work that helps remake the literary world into something better.” | Brooklyn Magazine
• “In modern Korea, fiction continues to be a critical mode of bearing witness.” On Han Kang’s examination of the Gwangju massacre, Human Acts. | The Nation
• We need to rethink ways of simply existing on the planet: An interview with Jessa Crispin. | Jezebel
• “That’s what was fun about writing this book: I was having these moments of absolute, bottom-of-the-well depression, but also power and agency and fierceness and control.” An interview with Morgan Parker. | The Cut
• On April 4th, 90 movie theaters across the U.S. will screen Michael Radford’s adaptation of 1984 in protest of Donald Trump. | Rolling Stone

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