LitHub Daily: January 15, 2016

TODAY: In 1831, Victor Hugo finishes The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 

• BuzzBooks recommends 117 books you should read this spring and summer. | Literary Hub
• Ben Lerner remembers C.D. Wright, “one of the most formally restless and ambitious writers in the language.” | The New Yorker
• “He was suffering physically and of course emotionally. But he was very, very tough and thoughtful, and somehow coped and kept going.” An interview with Paul Kalanithi’s widow. | Bookpage
• A symbolic monument/fundraiser aiming to rebuild the University of Baghdad’s destroyed library. | Hyperallergic
• Blinkered neutrality vs. real fairness: Teju Cole on what photojournalism should aim to accomplish. | The New York Times
• “The entire Western world is saturated by black female figures, everywhere.” An interview with Robin Coste Lewis. | BOMB Magazine
• Hundreds of writers in 44 countries participated in coordinated readings of Ashraf Fayadh’s poetry to protest his death sentence. | The Guardian
• Evie Shockley, Shane McCrae, DeSales Harrison, and Heather Christle share their most-taught texts. | Boston Review
• “How many new ways will we find of dressing up our refusal to do the right thing?” On Bernard Williams and philosophizing past the human. | The Point

Also on Literary Hub: Personality types that will derail your literary event, and other advice for a good panel · My first job: copyboy at the Daily News in 1947 · The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by André Naffis-Sahely

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