LitHub Daily: June 30, 2016

TODAY: In 1905, Albert Einstein publishes On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity. 

• Literary or genre, it’s the plot that counts: Emily Barton on the importance of moving a story forward. | Literary Hub
• On the murder of bloggers, and Bangladesh’s greatest living writer, Tahmima Anam. | Literary Hub
• Is the Caine Prize for emergent African writing, or the best African writing? | Literary Hub
• Shifting from love to evil: An interview with Edna O’Brien. | Smithsonian Magazine
• “ONLY FOR GROWN-UPS. NERVOUS TYPES—BEWARE!” An early fragment of fiction by Walter Benjamin. | BOMB Magazine
• “This is why, with my dying mother in the passenger seat of the car, I drove through a storm that turned the entire sky an impenetrable white.” On the Negro Motorist Green Book and traveling across America while black. | The Toast
• Every woman could be an island: An interview with Kate Bolick. | The Believer Logger
• “Good riddance to that which brought little besides pain and suffering.” Three stories by Zakaria Tamer. | Electric Literature
• An interview with Mark Singer, whose 1997 profile of Donald Trump described him as “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul” (and who Trump later described as a “total loser”). | VICE
• “These are words only, but let them / Acknowledge the flourishes you bring to life.” A poem by Don Share. | PUBLIC POOL
• “Does this appeal to you? I can have 1,429 pages on your desk by noon.” My Struggle: the elevator pitch. | n+1

Also on Literary Hub: Dead dogs, evil eyes, and writing the ugly: Francesca DeMusz and Stacy Szymaszek in conversation · The power of taboo in post-war Germany: crime writer Regula Venske remembers the words she was afraid to speak · The certificate of true citizenship: From The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

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