LitHub Daily: July 14, 2015

TODAY: In 1936, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Newbery Medal recipient, dies. 

• Saul Bellow’s editor Beena Kamlani on racing to finish his last novel, Ravelstein. | Literary Hub
• There is apparently another novel in the To Kill A Mockingbird “trilogy;” we can expect the final book to be divided into two movies. | The Guardian
• Speaking in parables, acts of translation, and sincere witness as a skeleton key: an interview with Ladan Osman. | The Paris Review
• Inhabiting adultness as achieving wholeness: Vivian Gornick reviews Susan Neiman’s treatise on growing up. | Boston Review
• “The membrane between fiction and nonfiction is thin as infant’s skin.” An interview with Lidia Yuknavitch. | The Rumpus
• “I had physicality and chaos.” A profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, filler of James Baldwin’s intellectual void. | New York Magazine
• Who are you? Azar Nafisi on Alice as the ideal reader, books as our own hookah-smoking caterpillars. | Salon
• “Passion, youth and love of the sea… the harmony of romance, beauty, adventure.” Dave Eggers relates the legend of Hollister. | The New Yorker
• Blubber is blubber: on Two Years Before the Mast, inspiration to Herman Melville and early American literary classic. | Smithsonian Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: On our fascination with twins · What everyone, everywhere is saying about Go Set a Watchman: a review of the reviews · Before there was Watchman, there was life with Harper Lee

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