
LitHub Daily: October 26, 2016
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1922, Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf is published by the Hogarth Press, with jacket design by the Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell.
- We all make mistakes: On the publisher who rejected Jane Austen. | Literary Hub
- Did Imbolo Mbue actually write the Great American Novel? | Literary Hub
- How Donald Trump modeled his life on cinematic loser Charles Foster Kane. | Literary Hub
- Rabih Alameddine in conversation with John Freeman: “My existence is uncomfortable to people.” | Literary Hub
- Sara Novic on accessibility, appropriation, and who has the right to speak for the Deaf community. | Literary Hub
- The Man Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded to Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, a “searing satire on race relations in contemporary America.” | The Man Booker Prizes
- From Abraham Lincoln to Elizabeth Kolbert, the 10 books that shaped President Obama. | Wired
- Writers’ coping strategies often end up constituting something like style: Kea Wilson interviews Tony Tulathimutte. | Playboy
- Sometimes only fantasy can capture the subtlety of real life: Fiction by Rebecca Makkai, Alice Sola Kim, and Lindsay Hunter on being almost famous. | BuzzFeed Reader
- A programmer has used a 3D modeling program to create a rendition of Borges’ Library of Babel, imagined home to 1.956 × 101,834,097 books. | Hyperallergic
- What was important to me was to let the ghosts filter through the language: An interview with Mauro Javier Cardenas. | Guernica
- The New York Times recommends 12 books to read in your 20s, for all the 20-somethings who haven’t yet discovered David Foster Wallace or Junot Díaz. | The New York Times
- “How did the audience reception to your debut short story My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass affect your decision to continue writing along those lines?” An interview with Chuck Tingle. | Columbia Journal
Also on Literary Hub: Ten books by Polish women writers that should be translated · Bookselling in the 21st century: from the seminary to the bookstore · You think Shakespeare’s actors did a lot of reading? From Margaret Atwood’s retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Hag-Seed.
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