LitHub Daily: October 14, 2016

TODAY: In 1888, short story writer Katherine Mansfield is born. 

• Yes, Bob Dylan really did win the Nobel Prize: Rosie Schaap on Dylan’s most poetic album · On his literary influences, from William Blake to Jack Kerouac · Patrick Ryan on his collegiate Dylan obsession · How Dylan just wanted to be a soul singer · Noah Berlatsky thinks Chuck Berry might as well have won… | Literary Hub
• The banality of Donald Trump: on Hannah Arendt’s birthday, examining her relevance to our political moment. | Literary Hub
• Brit Bennett on place, isolation, and what it means to be good. | Literary Hub
• When virality goes wrong: Chris Holm on the inspiration behind his new Michael Hendricks novel. | Literary Hub
• Small data is the new big data: two designers explain why personal documentary trumps the quantified self. | Literary Hub
• A lot of people had a lot of thoughts about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. | The New York Times, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, VICE
• Tessa Hadley, Helen Garner, and Hilton Als discuss glamour, body fascism, and writing in the face of no. | Electric Literature
• Market forces at work: On the fiction of George Saunders. | The Guardian
• “Who becomes an artist out of a desire for safety?” An interview with Alexander Maksik. | Tin House
•  Marketing categories can be destiny: Michelle Dean on the Brat Pack and literature that prefigures them. | The Nation
• Where the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature originate: An interactive map of writers accoladed by the Swedes. | My Poetic Side
• A new project will investigate “how social, historical, and political contexts ‘haunt’ the work of contemporary Asian American poets.” | The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry
• “land that calls me foreign land that makes my other language foreign on my tongue:” A poem by Fatimah Asghar. | BuzzFeed Reader

Also on Literary Hub: A brief and personal history of pig farming· Nine books to read for Latinx Heritage Month · I don’t believe we want the same things from our friendship: From Girl Trouble by Kerry Cohen, illustrated by Tyler Cohen

---