LitHub Daily: January 12, 2016

TODAY: In 1949, Haruki Murakmai is born. 

• Sunil Yapa on how to live cheaply and finish a novel. | Literary Hub
• On David Bowie, alien and actor. | Literary Hub
• Announcing the finalists for The Story Prize. | Literary Hub
• Hilton Als pays tribute to the late David Bowie, “a myriad of folks in a beautiful body who would reflect times to come.” | The New Yorker
• From Dante to Díaz, a reading list of Bowie’s 100 favorite books. | David Bowie
• The ALA has announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction: The Sympathizer and Hold Still, respectively. | American Library Association
• Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade was awarded the 2015 T.S Eliot Poetry Prize, becoming the first debut collection to receive the honor. | The New York Times
• A. Igoni Barrett on the “congested, cacophonous, chaotic, cosmopolitan, captivating” city of Lagos and the writing life in Nigeria. | Electric Literature
• Reconciling twinned layers of poetry: Chloe Garcia Roberts and Guangchen Chen discuss translating the notoriously obscure 9th century poet Li Shangyin. | Critical Flame
• On the “heavenly trio” of worst hypothetical dinner guests (Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick, and Nora Ephron) who have recently been added to the Last Interviews series. | NPR
• You remind me of you: A poem by John Ashbery. | The New Yorker

Also on Literary Hub: “I’m going to pretend to read to you from my novel”: On writing blind · Books making news this week: betwixt and between 2015 and 2016 · From Hélène Grémillon’s The Case of Lisandra P.

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