LitHub Daily: September 1, 2016

TODAY: In 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, is born. 

• Lucia Berlin offers writing advice (and more) in this never-before published interview. | Literary Hub
• 18 books you should read this September. | Literary Hub
• Peter Ho Davies on moving to America and mixing history with invention. | Literary Hub
• Haruki Murakami has been deemed most likely to with the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by Adunis and Joyce Carol Oates. | Nicer Odds
• The Center for Fiction’s 2016 First Novel Prize Shortlist has been announced with novels from Kia Corthon, Emma Cline, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Yaa Gyasi, Krys Lee, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Garth Greenwell listed. | The Center for Fiction
• “Things came to me as sounds or as melodies or as images. I couldn’t have gone on writing sentences that were really informative or indicative.” An interview with Colm Tóibín. | Aerodrome
• She is skeletal. She is fleshless. And that is probably why we yearn to possess her: Visualizing Emily Brontë. | The Hairpin
• “At home, everywhere I looked I now seemed to see a hidden part of myself that was publicly exposed.” Rachel Cusk on serving and erasing the reality of domestic life. | The New York Times Magazine
• Test the fryer for me, baby: An excerpt from Annie DeWitt’s White Nights In Split Town City. | Electric Literature
• Rare bookseller David Mason recounts the unresolved theft of letters between Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Morley Callaghan from his safe, “one of the most tantalizing literary losses of the 20th century.” | The Guardian
• Amber Sparks recommends five writers of flash fiction, “giant stories and visions in their own damn right.” | Vela
• Not a boy, not yet a thirty-year-old man: Determining Hamlet’s intended age. | The Times Literary Supplement

Also on Literary Hub: Ann Goldstein on translating Elena Ferrante and the inner workings of The New Yorker · How to reject a writer, and other advice for editors · A ladder to the sky: From Froelich’s Ladder by Jamie Duclos-Yourdon

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