LitHub Daily: September 9, 2016

TODAY: In 1910, Alice B. Toklas moves in with Gertrude Stein. 

• Two hundred years after the embargo Helen Garner finally reviews Pride and Prejudice (spoilers contained within). | Literary Hub
• A son seeks to avenge his father’s death: Eliot Weinberger‘s parable of 8th-century Ireland. | Literary Hub
• 32 imaginary tennis matches Paul Auster’s godson would very much like to see. | Literary Hub
• Miyazaki and more: Gabrielle Bellot on the rich literary DNA of Japanese anime. | Literary Hub
• “All teaching takes a toll on what’s taught, but high school is wondrously efficient at making interesting things dull.” Nicholson Baker on his reluctant appreciation for his unconventional education and what he learned as a substitute teacher. | The New York Times Magazine
• It’s by reading translations that we renew literature’s DNA: An interview with Álvaro Enrigue. | Publishing Perspectives
• “There is something really valuable about a kind of unbridled ridicule that also drills down to the things that people seem to really stick to and be proud of and asks them whether they really believe in those things and whether they really should feel so proud of them. “ An interview with Mark Greif. | VICE
• Recreating the beauty and the love and the person: Elizabeth Alexander on becoming a poet and her new memoir. | Star Tribune
• “Dancing-master, he said from a mouth stained with meat, why do you not try your hand at reforming the wild young man?” A short story by Alexandra Kleeman. | BuzzFeed Reader
• The print was small, but the ambition was titanic: On the Morgan Library’s new exhibition celebrating Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. | The New York Times
• There are many more stories out there: Tope Folarin on Western expectations and “accessible” narratives in African fiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival has announced this year’s authors and presenters. | Literary Arts

Also on Literary Hub: On the ethics of writing about your children: four non-fiction writers discuss how to navigate writing parenthood · A literary long weekend in Los Angeles · Refusing to go to bed: From Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage

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