LitHub Daily: November 14, 2016

TODAY: In 1850, Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield is first published in book form after concluding serial publication. 

• Jami Attenberg considers this nation of neighbors, and tries to find some empathy over the backyard fence. | Literary Hub
• 50 books for your anger and your action: fiction and poetry, non-fiction.
• In conversation with Robin Coste Lewis: “Black joy is my primary aesthetic.”
• On the death of Leonard Cohen and rise of Donald Trump: Summer Brennan wonders what we will sing about.
• How could so many get it so wrong? Teju Cole on Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and the election. | The New York Times
• “Racism is an objective reality and Donald Trump has inhabited that reality.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks with a very confused white man. | YouTube
• To promote the voices of marginalized writers, Alternating Current is offering grants (and the chance to fund them) for underrepresented voices. | Alternating Current
• “In the rush to be radically empathetic, and reckon with another’s disaffection, a different kind of normalization occurs: We validate an identity politics that is often rooted in denying other people’s right to the same.” Hua Hsu on normalization. | The New Yorker
• In collaboration with Entropy, Maggie Nelson has launched “an online literary magazine devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy, culture, and politics.” | Sublevel
• “I did not expect the election to be about women’s issues – stupid me.” Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and others reflect on Trump’s election. | The Guardian
• How writers, editors, teachers, translators, and others can get involved and take action. | Electric Literature

Also on Lit Hub: Eight Australian writers you should know · Blackwell’s, a bookshop since the 19th century · Read from Vi Khi Nao’s Fish in Exile

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