LitHub Daily: June 24, 2016

TODAY: In 1937, Anita Desai is born. 

• How writing about Pit Bulls led to death threats, online and IRL: on the firestorm around Bronwen Dickey’s new book. | Literary Hub
• LeBron James, hero of his own Homeric epic. | Literary Hub
• Dante, Auschwitz, and the world beyond the sun: Louis Begley’s life with the Divine Comedy. | Literary Hub
• A proper literary conversation (over tea and madeleines) with Cynthia Ozick, “a fanatic” in the cause of literature. | The New York Times Magazine
• Dorthe Nors on the curse of starting on too high a note when writing and learning to listen. | Catapult
• The James Baldwin House Association has launched in order to “protect, acquire and renovate Baldwin’s home in Provence and eventually to create a residency for artists and writers as well as a center for progressive thought and culture.” | James Baldwin Foundation
• Behold the origins of Angel Catbird, the superhero from Margaret Atwood’s graphic novel. | BuzzFeed Books
• Must the novel as a form always stand in the shadow of the institution of marriage? On female bachelor narratives, from Elizabeth Hardwick to Sheila Heti. | The Point
• “As a speaker of a small language, it can be alarming to hear the rapidly increasing influx of new words from a dominant force.” On the Anglicization on Norwegian. | Hazlitt
• “Danler’s characters are capable of language unencumbered by industry stereotypes only when they’re off the clock, and this feels true to life.” A fellow Union Square Cafe alumnus on the reality of Sweetbitter. | The Awl
• We both laughed merrily. It was dreadful: Alternate endings to Great Expectations by George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carroll, and others. | The Toast

Also on Literary Hub: Angela Flournoy, Leslie Jamison and Katherine Towler discuss writerly solitude at the Red Ink Series · Andrew Durbin on new work by Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang · They threw him into the sea: from A Master Plan For Rescue by Janis Cooke Newman, now out in paperback

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