LitHub Daily: July 27, 2015

TODAY: In 1946, Gertrude Stein died, narrowly avoiding post-modernism. 

• Tim Parks on death, family, and a text from the afterlife. | Literary Hub
• Original short stories from Sheila Heti, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Will Self, and Nina Stibbe. | The Guardian
• “Law enforcement officers see only the color of my skin, and in the color of my skin they see criminality.” Roxane Gay on Sandra Bland and driving while black. | The New York Times
• That’s not sweetness, it’s death: two short stories by Clarice Lispector. | Guernica, VICE
• Today in newly discovered, posthumous publishing: Copper Canyon Press is putting out a collection of 20 rediscovered Pablo Neruda poems. | ArtsBeat
• “He saw us clearly and tenderly, just as we are, but also was able to see past that – to what we might, at our best, become.” George Saunders on the bravery of the late E. L. Doctorow. | The New Yorker
• Illuminating the subtle, insidious, and soul crushing: an interview with the playwright who is adapting Citizen: An American Lyric for the stage. | Graywolf Press
• On The End of the Tour, its predestined casting, and the David Foster Wallace Industry. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• YOLO and FOMO, the guiding principles for our godless world: a literary history of worrying. | The New Republic

Also on Literary Hub: A bookstore on the former site of a sex shop: an interview with Malvern Books · Gentleman farmer J. P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man at sixty

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