LitHub Daily: January 7, 2016

TODAY: In 1891, Zora Neale Hurston is born. 

• How one writer gave up on the great American novel and got a book deal. | Literary Hub
• Go forth and reuse: The NYPL has digitized and uploaded more than 180,000 public domain items to their Digital Collections. | New York Public Library
• “They called me Heaven; and Hope, Hell.” A short story (not included in A Manual for Cleaning Women) by Lucia Berlin. | Electric Literature
• Who writes history? Men, about other men (as demonstrated by some very informative infographics). | Slate
• Five booksellers have gone missing in Hong Kong, presumptively for selling books banned in mainland China. | LA Times
• A brief history of other publishers who stood up for free speech by printing banned books. | Signature Reads
• The 1965 Nobel Prizes have announced their losers, including Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges. | The Guardian
• Economic structures and escapist fantasies: On socioeconomic diversity in literature. | The New Republic
• The Northshire Bookstore received an outpouring of support when it called out a customer who threatened the store for displaying copies of the Qur’an. | American Booksellers Association

Also on Literary Hub: On Raymond Chandler and the blurred lines of noir and sci-fi · Messy life, brilliant mind? Barry Yourgrau on writers and their clutter · From Janice Y. K. Lee’s The Expatriates

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