LitHub Daily: September 29, 2016

TODAY: In 1547, Cervantes is born. 

• Bookselling in the 21st century: when your bookstore gets robbed, from Brazos Bookstore. | Literary Hub
• Twenty-six maps reveal a New York City hiding in plain sight: from Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s Nonstop Metropolis. | Literary Hub
• Poetry is a pipe: selected writings of René Magritte. | Literary Hub
• The National Book Foundation has announced its 5 Under 35 honorees for 2016: Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi, Greg Jackson, S. Li, and Thomas Pierce. | National Book Foundation
• “My aim is to model a far more idiosyncratic way of reading as self-making, in which women of color can seek and find texts by other women that triangulate their own identities back to them.” Rafia Zakaria launches a new series on global women writers. | Boston Review
• Everything happens at once or nothing happens: On the loves, loss, and literature of Marguerite Duras. | London Review of Books
• “I don’t think the spiritual world needs to be claimed or reclaimed by anyone or anything. Let religion lay hands upon it. Let secularity lay hands upon it. But let the hands be gently laid. Let anything that clasps offer the kind of prayer it wants to pray. Let this all be poetry.” An interview with Max Ritvo. | The New Republic
• How a D. G. Compton novel from the 1970s predicted the authenticity crisis of our social media age. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “The more beautiful the image, the more frustrated I am in my writing.” On the highly artistic Twitter feed of Rabih Alameddine. | The New Yorker
• Micah Perks on her favorite tones (funny/sad), large-voiced narratives, and a woman’s right to hunger. | The Believer Logger
• A profound mediation on bodies in turmoil: Anuk Arudpragasam discusses his debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage. | The Barnes & Noble Review
• The Aspen Words Literary Prize, an annual award for an influential work of fiction that focuses on the vital issues of our time, has just been announced. | Aspen Words

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a gatekeeper: Matt Weiland, lover of soccer and talking rabbits · How J.M. Coetzee wrote his Booker prize-winning book · Fathers on Christmas Day: from D. Foy’s Patricide

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