LitHub Daily: July 15, 2016

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1947, writer and translator Lydia Davis is born. 
  • What getting published at 16 taught me about becoming a writer. | Literary Hub
  • On sexism in literary prize culture: men’s writing is just writing and everything else is a sub-classification. | Literary Hub
  • From a teen’s blog to international acclaim: on translating Sagawa Chika. | Literary Hub
  • Before Lish was Lish, he published Dave Godfrey: Lee Henderson on the Canadian Carver. | Literary Hub
  • An innocence coupled with a strange knowingness: A short story by Emma Cline. | Granta
  • “He was not one of the mellow, temperate Chinese from Buck’s novels. Rather, he was a combative and independent thinker, one who imagined a future where he might float free of the categories that restrained him. And he tried to write that future into existence.” On the forgotten life of H. T. Tsiang. | The New Yorker
  • For some reason, the emails of Natalie Portman (who owns many sweaters and no pants) and Jonathan Safran Foer (“the world’s last Hotmail user”) have been published. | T Magazine
  • “After breaking down the data by neighborhood and age group, it became clear: Children’s books are a rarity in high-poverty urban communities.” On the abundance and impact of book deserts in America. | The Atlantic
  • For the Scorpio Bernie Bro in your life: Bernie Sanders’s book, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, will be published on November 15th. | Los Angeles Times
  • “The job Hayden has before her is to prepare the Library to serve another century of US citizens where we’ve become most accustomed to consuming information: the internet.” On the Library of Congress’s struggles with digitizing. | n+1
  • On the contentious domain and “small rebirth of the poetic vanguard of Chinese poetry translation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
  • “I have enjoyed and celebrated and mythologized my mind and mental health a great deal and I have suffered from it.” Luke B. Goebel on writing about medication and mental health. | Catapult

Also on Literary Hub: When grief becomes surreal: on the reality-bending effects of trauma in literature · Frivolity, death, and Milena Busquets: the author of This Too Shall Pass is trying to find the light · The wild west of promiscuity: from Drew Nellins Smith’s Arcade

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