LitHub Daily: October 8, 2015

TODAY: In 1939, comic book writer Harvey Pekar is born; here he’s pictured with writer and social activist (and his wife) Joyce Brabner. 

• Kenzaburo Oe gets stuck on a street corner in America and finds a hero in Huckleberry Finn. | Literary Hub
• Svetlana Alexievich, Belarussian journalist and prose writer, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. | The New York Times
• This holiday season, show your favorite bookstore employee how much you care with a James Patterson-funded bonus. | American Booksellers Association
• It’s never too late to live on the farm: A collection of poems inspired by Bernadette Meyer. | The Atlas Review
• Exploring the possibilities of literary ventriloquism: Ceridwen Dovey, Valeria Luiselli, and invented, distinctive voices. | Virginia Quarterly Review
• “I never have ideas. I don’t plan or plot.” An interview with Ann Beattie. | The Millions
• On Slaughterhouse 90210, a “real live cultural argument” presented with “a wink and a dose of wit.” | NPR
• “Way cool,” or “Not this shit – not again!” Reading Mémoires, the recently translated, Situationist not-a-book. | Bookforum
• Joshua Cohen will attempt to out-Internet novel himself by writing a serialized novel in real time. | pckwck
• “There was no model for us brown girls. I’d never known any women of letters.” An interview with Sandra Cisneros. | Jezebel

Also on Literary Hub: Has Ta-Nehisi Coates given the #BlackLivesMatter movement its foundational text? · America’s literary history is getting stolen right in front of our eyes · Actual Asian and Asian American poets, no pseudonym required · Odd, hard love: Amanda Petrusich writes the ballad of Vic Chesnutt and Kristin Hershe · An excerpt from Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor

 

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