LitHub Daily: January 12, 2017

TODAY: In 1976, Agatha Christie dies.

The dystopian narratives of the Trump regime will come along soon enough: On the literary trends of the Obama years (autofiction, fables of meritocracy, novels set in the recent past, and the trauma narratives.) | Vulture
“Trump is patriarchy unbuttoned, paunchy, in a baggy suit, with his hair oozing and his lips flapping and his face squinching into clownish expressions of mockery and rage and self-congratulation.” Rebecca Solnit on our President-elect. | London Review of Books
“Without the filter of posterity, a poet of post-privacy looks just as forgettable as everyone else.” On the co-evolution of poetry and technology. | Real Life Magazine
The sun, see, same as it gives life, also takes it away: An excerpt from Aura Xilonen’s English debut, The Gringo Champion. | Words Without Borders
“There is, at the very least, the creative, the act of making.” An interview with Dawn Lundy Martin. | The Rumpus
I am quitting a boy like people quit smoking: A short story by Marie-Helene Bertino. | Electric Literature
On the books that do well internationally and in translation, and some theories as to why (Donna Leon’s: “Europeans read less crap.”). | The Guardian
The drDOCTOR reading series and podcast will now be publishing a literary magazine. | drDOCTOR

 

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