LitHub Daily: September 16, 2015

TODAY: In 1898, Hans Augusto Rey, author and illustrator of the Curious George series, is born. 

• Mary Duffy on how tweets, “those 140-character epigrams, are ripe for comparison with the work of David Markson.” | Literary Hub
• The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize and longlist for the poetry National Book Awards were announced, as well as the shortlist for the historically re-imaginative Daphne Awards. | The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Bookslut
• “First, strip an identity of all its history. Second, wear the hide to your convenience.” 19 Asian American writers respond to Michael Derrick Hudson. | Asian American Writers’ Workshop
• Juan Felipe Herrera on literary landscapes, running with poems, and velvet lightning bolts. | NPR
• “How can a book so slim take on such mammoth considerations and manage them with such efficacy?” Tracy K. Smith reviews Negroland. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• In which Hanya Yanagihara explains how the traumatically tragic A Little Life is like a fairy tale. | Bookanista
• Move over, Dan Humphrey: Edith Wharton was the original Gossip Girl. | Flavorwire
• “It’s not like I’m trying to make a point on postmodern fragmented existence.” A profile of Valeria Luiselli, who is smarter than all of us. | Broadly
• “Where are you going today?” A short story by Yoko Ogawa. | Hobart

Also on Literary Hub: Roxana Robinson on how Nabokov’s most famous book is, truly, a minor work · Naomi Jackson stays up late at Trinidad’s BOCAS Lit Fest · A poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza · In the West Virginia Alleghenies, Matthew Neill Null’s Honey From the Lion

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