LitHub Daily: September 13, 2016

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1592, essayist Michel de Montaigne dies. 
  • How to be a writer: ten tips from Rebecca Solnit. | Literary Hub
  • And in an entirely different direction, Teddy Wayne is worried he might be a fraud. | Literary Hub
  • Kate Beaton applies her graphic genius to the tyranny of babies: the Hark, a Vagrant! creator knows her audience. | Literary Hub
  • How my grandmother’s cookbook made me a writer. | Literary Hub
  • The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced, including Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, and Ottessa Moshfegh. | The Man Booker Prize
  • The 2016 National Book Awards longlist for poetry has also been announced, including collections from Rita Dove, Peter Gizzi, Solmaz Sharif, Monica Youn, and Kevin Young. | The New Yorker
  • Know your characters, distance yourself, and ignore tips: Jeanette Winterson, Claire Messud, and other authors share their best writing advice. | The Guardian
  • Teddy Wayne on the changing connotations of the word “loner,” gradual villains, and toxic masculinity. | NPR
  • “I gotta be, like, ‘This is a gift of a beautiful horse I gave you,’ and then put the drawbridge up, and it’s chaos.” On the poetry of Tommy Pico. | The New Yorker
  • Embarrassment is so useful: Brenda Shaughnessy and Christopher Soto in conversation. | Lambda Literary
  • “All narrators are unreliable. I despise books in which every question posed is answered.” Jonathan Lee interviews Alexander Maksik. | Electric Literature
  • Nick Flynn and Roy Scranton discuss the poetry of war, choosing not to discriminate between reality and fiction, and attempting to understand what we cannot forget. | Tin House
  • The Twin Cities Book Festival has announced their lineup, which includes Francine Prose, Karan Mahajan, and many others. | Rain Taxi

Also on Literary Hub: A preview of Bouchercon, the largest mystery fan convention in the US · Books making news: families, fetuses, and Foer · A very famous, memorably handsome man: “The First Wife” from Christine Sneed’s collection, The Virginity of Famous Men

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