LitHub Daily: October 5, 2016

TODAY: In 1869, model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s Poems that was buried with her. 

• Nell Zink on the ten things you need to know to be a novelist. (Plus excerpts from her new novel, Nicotine, and her reissued Private Novelist.) | Literary Hub
• Is Joyce Carol Oates trolling us? On gaffes, cats, and JCO’s twitter feed. | Literary Hub
• Why every American should read The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Gabrielle Bellot on radical difference in the age of Trump. | Literary Hub
• Julia Alvarez remembers her friend, the writer Gloria Naylor. | Literary Hub
• “Few explications of the Trump phenomenon mine these deeper connections between the Trump insurgency and his positive-thinking faith.” Chris Lehman creates and explores a Donald Trump syllabus. | The Nation
• Announcing and 11-week serialized storytelling event delivered to readers’ inboxes, which will feature work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Marra, and more. | Season of Stories
• The National Book Foundation has announced the launch of a new study on translation trends in American publishing. | Publishers Weekly
• “In places far from queer privilege, independent bookstores often offer queer people their only safe spaces.” On Garth Greenwell’s and Garrard Conley’s “Gay Invasion of North Carolina.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
• A standout in the “ceaseless slew of sex and dating books“: Tony Tulathimutte on the novelty of Emily Witt’s Future Sex. | The New Republic
• Alexandra Kleeman and Lincoln Michel on realism, David Lynch influences, and the unappropriability of vampire fiction. | BOMB Magazine
• “The ‘I’ can make it easier to ask nuanced questions, show humility, show how limited and tentative our thinking is, create intimacy, stage contradiction, reveal the commitments that make us argue what we do, articulate the body, cry out against injustice, demand our local experiences be treated as real….” An interview with Kristen Dombek. | Plougshares
• From “transgender” to “designated driver,” the first new Yiddish-English dictionary in half a century seeks to update a thousand-year-old language. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Natalie Baszile wrote the book she wanted to read: Queen Sugar · Jewish literature isn’t dead: it’s being written by women · No country for old women: from Nine Island by Jane Alison

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