LitHub Daily: October 20, 2016

TODAY: In 1928, Dorothy Parker, under her pen name Constant Reader, reviews A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner in The New Yorker, acknowledging that “to speak against Mr. Milne puts one immediately in the ranks of those who set fire to orphanages.” 

• Marlon James: Why I’m done with talking about diversity. | Literary Hub
• Margaret Atwood on magic, technology, and changing the world: in conversation with Paul Holdengraber. | Literary Hub
• Where is climate change in this election? Joshua Jelly-Shapiro on the ongoing peril of rising seas and a Caribbean at risk. | Literary Hub
• Who should own what in the digital age? Jeff VanderMeer on why you should care about the end of Black Clock, plus an interview with Black Clock editor Bruce Bauman and stories by Joanna Scott and Jeff VanderMeer from the final issue of the magazine. | Literary Hub
• It’s important that people begin to understand that whiteness is not inevitable: Claudia Rankine will use her MacArthur genius grant to found a Racial Imaginary Institute. | The Guardian
• All the subtlety of a Donald Trump rally: Adapting Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, a “frightening book for frightening times,” for the stage today. | The New Yorker
• “I feel embarrassed saying that even to you, that I did something that no one had ever done before.” Suki Kim on genre, gender, and going undercover. | Fiction Advocate
• From Jeanette Winterson to Jacqueline Woodson, 19 “entertaining and mind-opening” short books. | Vulture
• “How I learned the rules so I could break them, but I found breaking them a very hard thing.” Larissa Pham on the taste of rightness and writing her first novel. | Catapult
• There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness: An interview with Emily Barton. | The Rumpus
• On Carmilla, the original vampire novel of modern Europe, which features nightmares of giant cats and strong lesbian undertones. | Atlas Obscura
• A new J.R.R. Tolkien book will be published in 2017 and probably spawn at least four movies. | The Telegraph

Also on Literary Hub: When the physical manifestation of bloviating hyperbole and self-satire takes over TV · Learning to embrace guanxi: on living communally in China · Where is climate change in this Presidential election? · When Tancred met Willow: from André Alexis’s The Hidden Keys

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