LitHub Daily: November 7, 2016
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- ELECTION EVE 2016, at Literary Hub: Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau talk raising children of color in Trump’s America · Nicole Dennis-Benn on voting as an immigrant · Susan Straight on driving 3,000 miles to vote · Pamela Newkirk on the myth of a post-racial America · Lauren Elkin on Donald Trump, anti-flaneur · Maurice Carlos Ruffin on talking Trump in New Orleans · Kera Bolonik and Kate Tuttle on the limits of satire in an age of Trump · Ten literary takes on all our possible post-election apocalypses
- C.E. Morgan, Susan Faludi and Jason Reynolds have won this year’s Kirkus Book Prizes. | The New York Times
- “Whatever differences there might be between making music and writing fiction, both of us are happiest when immersed in our work.” Haruki Murakami in conversation with Seiji Ozawa. | The Guardian
- From It Can’t Happen Here to Stronger Together, 16 books that explain the election. | The Washington Post
- “They’ve seen anger in the world, and it makes sense to them, and now it seems right to see it on the page.” Rereading James Baldwin in the Obama years. | Guernica
- Historical amnesia and civil resistance: On This is an Uprising and how political change actually occurs. | The New Inquiry
- On the translation of Greek philosophy into Arabic in the second half of the eighth century and the difficulty of such renderings. | Aeon
- There’s so much for me about writing a novel that is about the unknown and about discovery: An interview with Esmé Weijun Wang. | The Rumpus
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