LitHub Daily: June 22, 2015

TODAY: In 1947, Octavia Butler is born. 

• A conversation with Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, the quiet rebels of Russian translation. | Literary Hub
• A crowd-sourced syllabus offering “insights on race, racial identities, global white supremacy and black resistance” to better contextualize the horrific murders in Charleston. | #CharlestonSyllabus
• Bookstores are not video stores, will not go the way of Blockbuster (R.I.P.). | Electric Literature
• Elena Ferrante “would probably be very happy” to win Italy’s most prestigious literary award, but we will never know for certain. | The Guardian
• Two men, mysteries, fucking: Richard Siken’s poetry was usurped and repurposed by the fans of a fantasy show on the CW. | The Awl
• On Dada, the avant-garde of the avant-garde, which was more than just an art movement without art. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• The Word became flesh: on the religious writing of Flannery O’Connor. | NPR
• A new contender rises in the life experience vs. MFA debate: Twitter. | Pacific Standard
• From cyberpunks to YouTube stars: a history of the Great Internet Novel. | Flavorwire

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