LitHub Daily: November 29, 2016

TODAY: In 1832, Louisa May Alcott is born. 

• Notes on some notable omissions from the NY Times’ Notable Books list. | Literary Hub
• Even Ted Chiang didn’t get to see the aliens in Arrival before the rest of us. | Literary Hub
• Storytelling in the age of Snapchat: If everyone is oversharing, is anyone? | Literary Hub
• Just how far will a bookseller go to help a customer? | Literary Hub
• “Like many previous Dickinson drops, going back to the eighteen-nineties, they radically alter our vision of perhaps the greatest poet to write on American soil:” On Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems. | The New Yorker
• Madeleine Thien on Phnom Penh, “a pensive, joyful, teetering, melancholic city, a truly open place.” | Words Without Borders
• “Literary critics have emphasized ‘de’ words, like ‘debunk’ and ‘deconstruct.’ But they’ve shortchanged ‘re” words—literature’s capacity to reshape and recharge perception.” On the suspicion inherent in literary studies. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Even if a line was brilliant and beautiful, if its not furthering the thrust and life of the poem, it needs to be cut.” Ada Limón reflects on her workshop experiences. | Tin House
• “Part of the poet’s work, I think, is to maintain or reintroduce the imaginative capacity of their earlier self while nonetheless maturing.” An interview with Shane McCrae. | The Rumpus
• Henrietta Rose-Innes on time-warp experiences, inevitable cycles of change, and embracing dysfunction. | Electric Literature
• “Without Simonson, it’s likely that Seattle would not have the literary reputation that it enjoys today.” On Rick Simonson, founder of Elliott Bay’s reading series and literary “rock star.” | The Seattle Review of Books

Also on Literary Hub: Hanging out with the great Blaise Cendrars in bohemian Paris · Five Books Making News This Week · Read from Melissa Yancy’s Dog Years

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