LitHub Daily: July 11, 2016

TODAY: In 1960, Harper Lee’s first (but not only) novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is published. 

• How to be a writer: Ramona Ausubel’s winding path to her first novel. | Literary Hub
• Celebrating Marcel Proust’s 145th birthday (July 10th): Six contemporary writers, from Francine Prose to Aleksandar Hemon, on the genius of Marcel Proust; Six reasons everyone should read In Search of Lost Time; Marcel Proust’s biographer makes the case for why you really should read Proust; How the French reread Proust. | Literary Hub
• Jesse Ball and Catherine Lacey discuss strategies for a non-interview, why they write, and the flammability of poetry. | BOMB Magazine
• “Some part of me knew that, in the same way capoeira tested the limits of what I thought my body was capable of, Brazil would push my spiritual, intellectual, and creative limits.” Naomi Jackson on visiting Brazil. | Words Without Borders
• “I believe in alternate universes and in reincarnation and that the weirdness of the world and the universe far exceed the weirdness that I can concoct.” A conversation between Manuel Gonzales and Ada Limón. | Oxford American
• From Robinson Crusoe to Eat, Pray, Love, 100 of the all-time greatest “Beach Reads.” | Vulture
• “There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places.” An interview with Ben H. Winters. | The Rumpus
• Bonnie Nadzam on the process of knowing characters, steering hard while writing, and why the American west is the perfect subject matter. | Electric Literature
• Beyond mud, wire, and slaughter: On less obvious poetry about war. | The Guardian
• On The Rebel in the Rye, a new film about “the man who gave the world Holden Caulfield and almost certainly would have never approved of this project himself.” | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Towne Center Books, a place where ideas are formed · When Marcel Proust was an anxious debut novelist · Psychology. For fuck’s sake.: From The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera translated by Lisa Dillman

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