LitHub Daily: January 19, 2016

TODAY: In 1809, (quoth the raven) Edgar Allan Poe is born. 

• Barry Gifford on one of the 20th century’s great unsung crime novels. | Literary Hub
• Alabama, 1956: Gordon Parks tells the story of segregation, one photo at a time. | Literary Hub
• Junot Díaz on belonging to language, lifesaving books, and the spooky quantum effects of history. | Asymptote Journal
• Lascivious nymphs, dull wifely women, and intellectual equals: Adelle Waldman on the novel’s evolving portrayal of marriage. | The New Yorker
• Clarice Lispector’s translator Katrina Dodson interviews Elena Ferrante’s translator/public face, Ann Goldstein. | Guernica
• On Life From Elsewhere, a collection of translated essays and “portable library of world literature.” | Sacred Trespasses
• “I take whatever miscellany of language I have on hand and try to make of it something that’s important to me.” Annie DeWitt talks with Dianne Williams. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• The 30 finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced. | Omnivoracious
• Chelsea Hodson on vanity projects, the beauty of broken hearts, and molting like a tarantula. | Hobart
• Adrian Tomine has won The Story Prize Spotlight Award for his collection of graphic short stories, Killing and Dying. | The Story Prize

Also on Literary Hub: A look at the first bookstore/cafe in Washington D.C.: Kramerbooks & Afterwords · Five books making news this week: magic, murder, and ghosts · A Spinglish-English translation of the sixth Republican debate · The lucid dreamers: from The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brussolo, translated by Edward Gauvin

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