LitHub Daily: June 24, 2015

TODAY: In 1842, critic and satirist Ambrose Bierce is born; he was last seen traveling with rebel troops in Chihuahua, Mexico circa 1914.

• Mia Alvar, Sara Nović, and Boris Fishman on physical, emotional, and literary diasporas. | Literary Hub
• In which Celeste Ng artfully uses the word “grapple,” deconstructs Asian-American stereotypes, and reveals tricks for getting people to think about race. | The Oyster Review
• One intrepid reader attempts to justify the “lightness” of Milan Kundera’s new novel; others, most likely, will stick with schadenfreude. | The Huffington Post
• Edwidge Danticat on “black bodies in motion and in pain” in America, the Dominican Republic, and beyond. | The New Yorker
• Rivka Galchen on nonfiction’s burden of information, fiction’s breathless movement, and short stories’ slow velocity. | Electric Literature
• The novella is having an existential crisis, asserts that is it not merely a shorter version of the novel. | The Times Literary Supplement
• We may have to bid literary mini-scandals farewell: publishers are beginning to hire fact-checkers. | Vulture
• “He wanted a reality that was like Frida’s paintings, ghastly but unique.” A short story by Juan Villoro. | Asymptote
• Yale’s rare-book library, much like a college bro during finals week, is amassing a collection of old Chipotle cups. | The Atlantic
• It’s never too early for a Best of the Year so far list. | Omnivoracious

Also on Literary Hub: Five Quebecois writers you should know · Great writers nobody reads, but should · A poem by Amber Atiya · In the midst of Emily St. John Mandel’s apocalypse

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