LitHub Daily: November 9, 2016

TODAY: In 1953, poet Dylan Thomas dies. 

• America’s literary voices react to President Donald Trump. | Literary Hub
• A long, sad night in Washington, DC: Timothy Denevi considers the fate of the Republic, and the next four years. | Literary Hub
• Saba Imtiaz wanders the streets of Amman in search of a 14th-century scribe. | Literary Hub
• At least there will always be bookstores… Jeremy Garber considers the future of bookselling. | Literary Hub
• From Maggie Nelson to Lily Hoang to Claudia Rankine: a new way of telling women’s stories. | Literary Hub
• When your fictional characters move into the real houses of your childhood. | Literary Hub
• “One moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.” A short story by Mohsin Hamid. | The New Yorker
• An approximation of the “real” Hrabal has been, for a long time, more than enough for me: Peter Orner on Too Loud a Solitude, a “ninety-eight-page, lightning strike of a novel.” | Guernica
• “Babitz isn’t staring into the abyss and reporting back; but she does want to tell you how good the light is out by the abyss.” On Eve Babitz’s renaissance. | The Guardian
• Creating form out of formlessness: On the “female mastery of storytelling through textile, stitching, weaving.” | Hazlitt
• “My rote inferno was born from creating absurd characters and stealing what couldn’t be stolen from the Greek.” An interview with Vi Khi Nao. | Fanzine
• Mary Beard on citizenship and self-implosion in ancient Rome (and not on the American election). | Los Angeles Review of Books
• João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas, which is “widely considered to be the greatest work of Brazilian fiction in the twentieth century,” will be translated into English for the first time. | Words Without Borders

Also on Lit Hub: Literary comics to ease your thinkpiece fatigue · Lauren Cerand reports from the Words Without Borders Gala · Read from By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill

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