LitHub Daily: February 25, 2016

TODAY: In 1917, author Anthony Burgess is born. Yarbles! 

• 23 books to be excited about in March: Lit Hub contributors offer their suggestions for next month.  | Literary Hub
• Walt Whitman is dead, I’m divorced, and the universe goes on: J. Aaron Sanders on life and death. | Literary Hub
• Publishing is a monoculture: 50 people share their experiences of working in the depressingly and overwhelmingly white publishing industry. | Brooklyn Magazine
• President Obama will nominate Carla D. Hayden to be the Librarian of Congress; Hayden would be both the first African American and the first woman to hold the position. | The White House
• “Let’s now think of ways of building strong publishing houses on the continent, so our books can get to people.” Edwige-Renée DRO on the contemporary literary scene in Côte d’Ivoire. | The New Inquiry
• History like a flower of skin: On Salvadoran writer Jorge Galán, who was forced into exile after the publication of his most recent and explicitly political novel. | The New Yorker
• Sarah Howe on changing British poetry, writing towards hallucination, and Borges’ fictional taxonomy. | The Honest Ulsterman
• “I continue to want to try to find ways to attach language to the horror of Donald Trump.” An excerpt from Rick Moody’s diary of the presidential election. | The Believer Logger
• Unraveling the mystery of the Incan khipu, which may have been a language recorded in knots. | Hyperallergic
• “Can the art of teaching art be exhibited? No, but people keep trying.” On (another) exhibition about Black Mountain College. | The Nation

Also on Literary Hub: Idra Novey on writing while translating · Secrets of the book designer: falling in love and taking a risk · 30 Books in 30 Days: Walton Muyumba on Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot · Eating fish eyeballs among friends: From Kristopher Jansma’s Why We Came to the City

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