LitHub Daily: October 13, 2016

TODAY: In 2005, Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. 

• So who exactly is Bob Dylan, newly crowned Nobel laureate? Lisa Levy goes deep on the poet vs. songwriter vs. showman debate… | Literary Hub
• Jonathan Lethem on the lost conversations of Ross MacDonald, a 20th-century literary master. | Literary Hub
• Barney Rosset on the publishing gamble that changed America, and the legal battle for Lady Chatterley’s Lover. | Literary Hub
• Lean in, swipe right: Bridget Read on Tinder, Emily Witt’s Future Sex, and the uncertain politics of singledom. | Literary Hub
• A thing that breaks before it bends: on Donika Kelly’s black girl poetry. | Literary Hub
• From Orwell to Kapuscinski to Trump: When does egoism become narcissism? | Literary Hub
• Human memory really is unreliable: an excerpt from The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei, translated by Canaan Morse. | Literary Hub
• The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” | The Nobel Prize
• “So, how to do it? Choose very few details, and choose ones that have trapdoors built into them in order to make the world of the story feel both familiar and unreliable.” Alexandra Kleeman interviews Colin Winnette. | Playboy
• Arcane fun with Christian Lorentzen: How Nobel Prize winners are nominated, narrowed down, and selected. | Vulture
• In which Rob Spillman compares book touring to being a roadie for his daughter’s band, reflects on meeting legendary booksellers, shares excitement about the literary world. | Poets & Writers
• “Sure, I’d like to go watch rare migratory birds with Franzen and ponder my next book, but I would much rather be in this beautiful messy young-kids stage, and grab a little time to write if and when it’s possible.” An interview with Max Porter. | The Rumpus
• “Aren’t we exactly what humans are looking for?” A short story by Ted Chiang. | Electric Literature
• An experience which blurs the distinction between persons and puppets: What video games and The Winter’s Tale have in common. | Full Stop
• “You still have your soul, right?” A short story by Deirdre Coyle. | Hobart
  

Also on Literary Hub: Dispatches from a writer’s retreat on a playground for the super rich · Interview with a gatekeeper: Algonquin Books’ Elisabeth Scharlatt · We were getting divorced and that was that: from The Fortress by Danielle Trussoni

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