LitHub Daily: May 12, 2016

• New Arabic fiction: The Common celebrates contemporary writing from across the Arab world. | Literary Hub
• In defense of grown men crying: on feeling deeply and writing as an act of exploration. | Literary Hub
• 10 German books by women we’d love to see in English. | Literary Hub
• Ed Roberson has recieved the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in the art of poetry. | Poetry Foundation
• “The devil has several names and Lucifer is one.” New short fiction from Hilary Mantel. | London Review of Books
• Meet nine Greek writers who are redefining poetry in the midst of the austerity crisis. | The Guardian
• On Anne Garréta’s Sphinx and the challenges of translating genderless characters. | The Atlantic
• “Shopping had a kind of ambassadorial function.” Margo Jefferson and Darryl Pinckney discuss the Black Bourgeoisie. | Chicago Review of Books
• A brief history of single-girl guidebooks, from Marjorie Hillis to Helen Gurley Brown. | The Millions
• “[His] stories are remarkable for both their sharp relevance and their otherness.” Lydia Millet chooses Matthew Neil Null’s “Gauley Season” for Recommended Reading. | Recommended Reading
• Hello to all that: Jami Attenberg on moving to New Orleans to write. | Lenny Letter

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