LitHub Daily: January 26, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 2014, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and novelist José Emilio Pacheco dies.
- Marilynne Robinson on what we’re losing in President Obama. | Literary Hub
- From Portela to Meruane, nine books by Latin-American women we need to see in English. | Literary Hub
- A brief tour of the best bookstores in Mexico City. | Literary Hub
- Nationalism is strange and unnatural: a graphic essay by Thi Bui. | Literary Hub
- “Milo [Yiannopoulos]’s case reveals the contradictions of any endeavor that speaks in noble tones about the profit motive.” On the discrepancy between publishing’s purported ideals and its drive towards profit. | New Republic
- On the first “prolific writer of songs” to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- The new issue of The Critical Flame features essays on Solmaz Sharif, Phyllis Bottome, and more. | The Critical Flame
- Six journalists have been charged with felony rioting while covering anti-Trump protests, sending “a chilling message to journalists covering future protests.” | The Guardian
- Reflections on the Jaipur Literature Festival, an event characterized by “ordinary people afflicted with book love” or, alternatively, a “craven culture of looking away and of deal making.” | The New York Times, The Baffler
- What we stand to lose if funding to the NEA, NEH, and CPB is cut (and a catalogue of the NEA’s contributions). | MobyLives, Hyperallergic
- The Trump Story Project, which will feature 10 short stories set during the current administration, has begun with a piece by Héctor Tobar. | Slate
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