LitHub Daily: February 6, 2017

TODAY: In 1916, Rubén Darío, father of the modernismo literary movement, dies.

Is the best millennial story a noir story? On Search Party and life in uncertain times. | Literary Hub
Sexier, scarier, better: on discovering a lost version of the original Dracula. | Literary Hub
Advice from a better president: on the eerie relevance of Washington’s farewell address. | Literary Hub
Warsan Shire and Beyoncé are the heroes we need right now. | Literary Hub
A running list of titles made great again by you know who.
“I grew up inhabiting a myth in which I was both enforcer and actor: the myth of a single and unique America.” Raoul Peck’s introduction to I Am Not Your Negro. | Guernica
“The man was elected President. Ipso facto, America is this, we are this.” Rabih Alameddine on the aftermath of the election. | The New Yorker
On “France’s booming decline industry” which explores “the country’s (and the West’s) failings and France’s obsession with those failings.” | The New York Times
Beyond the “New Weird”: On China Miéville’s “riotously uncategorizable fiction.” | Public Books
Food provides the balance between surrealism and normalcy: On Haruki Murakami’s food writing. | The Awl
Two new publishers—La Casita Grande and Lil’ Libros—have launched in response to the “growing demand for books by Latino authors that are more varied than those currently being published.” | Publishers Weekly
“.45 inches to accommodate my own colonizing tongue/which licks the wound clean” A poem by Matthew Whitley. | n+1

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