LitHub Daily: January 20, 2017

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  • “They see the same person they’ve always seen—the consummate classroom troublemaker; a vain, insecure bully; and an anti-institutional schemer, as adept at ‘gaming the system’ as he is unashamed.” Speaking with three of Trump’s biographers. | POLITICO
  • The Trump transition team has announced its plan to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. | The Hill
  • “If the counternarrative has the power to change the law, it still exists as a counternarrative.” Speaking with Claudia Rankine about the Racial Imaginary Institute. | The New Yorker
  • “[Rachel] Cusk apparently had demanded too much—she had become a mother and wished to remain herself at the same time.” On motherhood, Outline, and Transit. | Broadly
  • “This is a time for resistance. That’s what I hear these days. (Fact: it always was.)” Chiwan Choi, Natashia Deón, and other writers “share short essays of strength, hope, reflection, and resistance.” | PEN Center USA
  • “Love was not something I would have previously thought to look for in a President, but now I’m wondering how I’ll do without it.” Ann Patchett on Obama’s displays of lovingness. | TIME
  • The finalists for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media and the 2017 Edgar Awards nominees have been announced. | ASME, TheEdgars.com

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