LitHub Daily: January 18, 2017

TODAY:  In 1911, Peruvian poet, novelist, and anthropologist José María Arguedas is born.

• Your literary guide to Sundance (seriously, without books, there’d be no movies). | Literary Hub
• On the role of sensitivity readers in publishing: a writer, reader, and publisher weigh in. | Literary Hub
• To be human is to run: Gary McDowell on putting one foot in front of the other. | Literary Hub
• Bookselling in the 21st century: The downside of the local retail experience. | Literary Hub
• The finalists for the 2017 NBCC Awards have been announced. | National Book Critics Circle
• Of course I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want: Ottessa Moshfegh speaks with Luke B. Goebel. | Fanzine
• “As long as Trump is in charge, if I absolutely have to visit the United States, I prefer to go in the queue for a regular visa with others.” Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, has destroyed his Green Card. | The Atlantic
• They suck, but their focus gets to me: A short story by Deirdre Coyle. | Joyland
• “What a toll it has taken, this death and grieving and loss!” An excerpt from Patty Yumi Cottrell’s novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On Dutch designer Irma Boom’s “quixotic, endless undertaking of creating a library of what she call[s] ‘only the books that are experimental.’” | The New York Times
• His death left us, his many Hispanic readers, feeling orphaned: A remembrance of Ricardo Piglia by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney). | Words Without Borders

Also on Lit Hub: A final farewell to Brooklyn’s BookCourt · See photos from Sunday’s Writers Resist protest · From Dawn Tripp’s latest novel, Georgia.

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