LitHub Daily: May 26, 2016

TODAY: In 1959, Raymond Chandler dies. 

• Rebecca Solnit on narratives, journalism, and how to break the story. | Literary Hub
• When a novelist becomes an ultramarathoner. | Literary Hub
• How the writer edits: Julian Barnes in conversation with John Freeman. | Literary Hub
• “[W]here Ulysses swells with linguistic inventiveness and gleeful experimentation, Portrait swells with … well, what? Mood.” Karl Ove Knausgaard recalls first reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in honor of its 100th anniversary. | The New York Times
• “I knew what it was like to encounter the miniature and wish to have it for yourself.” Kaitlyn Greenidge on diminutive tacos, dollhouses, and desiring the unattainable. | Lenny Letter
• “I scanned them really quickly and thought, Holy shit, these are good.” On the discovery of 3 complete short stories by Raymond Carver 10 years after his death. | Esquire Classics
• In which William Egginton describes Don Quixote to an alien, refuses his children diluted literature, and suggests that Cervantes shouldn’t have owned a cat. | Full Stop
• “When it was over, he lay awake and listened to Cesar breathe.” A short story by Jensen Beach. | Electric Literature
• The 20th-century phase of the British Library’s literature website, which features articles, close readings, archival materials, and more, is now live. | The British Library
• Can liberal education (“a minnow”) save the sciences (“a fat and sassy whale”)? | The Point
• Illustrations from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Albina and the Dog-Men, which are not safe for work (especially the one of numerous fedoras floating on an open sea). | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: On public bathrooms, anti-trans policies and What Belongs to You · Swati Khurana on the Grub Street writers of color roundtable · The CIA vs. Random House: from Robert L. Bernstein’s Speaking Freely

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