LitHub Daily: October 23, 2015

TODAY: In 1958, Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; he is forced by the Soviet authorities to renounce it a few days later. 

• Lily Tuck finds herself within a history of auto-fiction. | Literary Hub
• An annotated version of everyone’s favorite office comedy-cum-ghost story-cum-Zen koan, “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” | Slate
• “Heck, I must be a real writer.” George Saunders recounts his writing education, from 1986 on. | The New Yorker
• The T.S. Eliot Prize announced its shortlist, which includes Mark Doty, Claudia Rankine, and Don Paterson. | Poetry Book Society
• From SciFi to naked women to an undefined future: a look at Playboy’s (more) literary past. | Kirkus Reviews
• “Jesus, this is a goddamn multiplication table.” Tracy O’Neill reveals the topography of The Hopeful. | Blunderbuss Magazine
• On Anne Sexton’s Transformations, indescribable poetry collection, portal, and absolutely a product of the 70s. | The Millions
• A guide to whether you should write a personal essay. | Medium
• From Heinrich von Kleist to Mark Z. Danielewski, 13 Halloween-appropriate ~spooky~ books. | The American Scholar

Also on Literary Hub: Lauren Cerand reports from the Texas Book Festival Gala · If you want to write, you need to know Brenda Ueland · At LitCrawl NYC: Drinks are drunk, profanity used · A poem-a-day countdown to the Irish Arts Center Poetry Fest: day four, Connie Roberts · Read the eponymous story from Anthony Marra’s new book, The Tsar of Love and Techno

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