LitHub Daily: January 5, 2017

TODAY: In 1938, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is born.

Madeleine Thien, Cory Doctorow, and other Canadian writers on their favorite places in the Great White North. | The New York Times
“Berger’s death invites us to consider the role of the popularizer.” Jo Livingstone on why Ways of Seeing should be only the beginning of John Berger’s legacy—not its end. | New Republic
So why did you have to ruin all my favorite authors? and other questions for Joel Whitney, author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. | VICE
Revelations both scandalous and bittersweet: Speaking with Catherine Lacey and Forsyth Harmon, author and illustrator of The Art of the Affair. | Nylon
The recent closing of the Bronx’s Barnes & Noble—the borough’s only general interest bookstore—adds to the growing number of “book deserts” to be found among some of America’s poorest neighborhoods. | New York Daily News
“But I must, for the first thing, give utterance to a whole row of thanksgivings for your long-yearned, hard-hoped, fast-sent and all- surpassing answer to my letter, with all its flippancy and hardboiled guyness.” On the letters Cesare Pavese wrote Anthony Chiuminatto to practice his American slang. | The Paris Review
The Millions’ Great 2017 Book Preview has arrived. | The Millions

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