Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2017

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TODAY: In 1914, Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal is born.

Julio Cortázar on the hazy borders of memoir and fiction, and the fantastic violence of Latin American politics. | Literary Hub
How to write a libretto about a massacre: Harriet Scott Chessman tells the story of My Lai. | Literary Hub
Bookstore as political act: Scott Esposito finds resistance on the shelves. | Literary Hub
Julia Dahl: writing crime fiction among the pious. | Literary Hub
After facing complaints from parents and state lawmakers, a North Carolina school district has pulled Jacob’s New Dress, a book about a young boy who elects to wear a dress to school one day, from its first grade curriculum. | Cosmopolitan
“I do think there is something about this hybrid form that meets a need that is specifically female, one that is specifically marginalized by our culture.” An interview with Melissa Febos. | Bookforum
Fully entering into a different language involves a total upending of the self: Three translators weigh on what Arrival gets right (and wrong) about language learning. | Words Without Borders
“I read to be filled with a sense of wonder.” An interview with Kanishk Tharoor. | Los Angeles Review of Books
In honor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s 20th anniversary this month, a New York Times-curated list of Buffy fanfiction, by authors who range from 17 to 56. | The New York Times
“Considering what climate change portends for our future, the subject ought to be the principal preoccupation of fiction writers the world over.” Amitav Ghosh on writing in the Anthropocene. | The American Scholar
His insurgent D.I.Y. purity is on full display: On a new volume of Bill Knott’s collected poems, which he may not have “been pleased to see . . . in print.” | The New Yorker
Gore Vidal on sex, Capote, and the pope in Tennessee Williams’ memoirs. | Book Marks

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