LitHub Daily: November 19, 2015

TODAY: In 1942, poet Sharon Olds is born. 

• Are we different people in different languages? Being a multilingual writer in the 21st century. | Literary Hub
• On turning board games into books, and books into board games. | Literary Hub
• The National Book Awards were announced last night: Ta-Nehisi Coates won the Nonfiction award for Between the World and Me and the Poetry award went to Robin Coste Lewis for Voyage of the Sable Venus. The Fiction award went to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories. | The National Book Foundation
• How William Blake’s erotic writing preserved his legacy (unlike the contenders for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award). | NYRB, The Guardian
• “It’s during the night that the giants of this world manufacture our misfortunes with the zeal of self-taught bakers.” An excerpt from Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83. | Necessary Fiction
• “Take off your shirts… Repeat after me. Say: I am a fool.” A short story by Karen E. Bender. | Electric Literature
• “You also start to wonder how many cultural treasures and figures are buried in that antiquity… Highsmith’s ‘lesbian book,’ its million paperback copies of six decades ago notwithstanding, is just such a case.” On the reception and film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. | Vulture
• Celebrating the poetry of colors, objects, rooms: On Goodnight Moon as a descendent of Gertrude Stein. | Public Books
• The New York Public Library has acquired 3,000 linear feet of archival manuscript material from the New York Review of Books. | The Guardian
• The star of The Angry Birds Movie will also star in an “indie dramedy” based on a David Foster Wallace short story. | The Wrap

Also on Literary Hub: Motherhood vs. writerhood… When can you call writing a job? · On Plato and Socrates, the old atheists: from Tim Whitmarsh’s Battling the Gods

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