LitHub Daily: September 6, 2016

TODAY: In 1907, Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist and the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies. 

• Mario Vargas Llosa: how global entertainment killed culture. | Literary Hub
• What do your reading habits reveal about your personality? A literary questionnaire. | Literary Hub
• Spoiler alerts: on misguided spoiler panic and why we should all calm down. | Literary Hub
• “As I started to realize just how much I’d learned in school was just bullshit, then it became a lot more interesting to me.” An interview with N.K. Jemisin. | The Atlantic
• This lone affirmation in the face of an entire world trying to negate us, erase us: On The Price of Salt and the power of narrative. | Electric Literature
• Mary Roach on bizarre military task groups, footnotes, and her lack of tolerance for PowerPoints. | Hazlitt
• Danielle McLaughlin on Wide Sargasso Sea’s “exquisite, deadly prose” and its influence on her writing. | The Paris Review
• She immolated instantaneously whatever she dreamed up: On the poetry of Alice Oswald. | The New Yorker
• Linguist John McWhorter on the literal meaning of literally, the drift of language, and the difference between Elizabethan and modern English. | NPR
• “On any given day, digitally and in print, readers of the New York Times can expect more book coverage.” Pamela Paul on transitions in the New York Times’ book coverage. | Publishers Weekly
• That’s literally twisted: An excerpt from Michael Helm’s After James. | Tin House

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Carmichael’s Bookstore, bringing literature to Louisville since 1978 · Books making news this week: drug addiction, making babies, and Orwell · Of the city he knew nothing: from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Malafrena from Library of America’s The Complete Orsinia

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