LitHub Daily: October 11, 2016

• The man who invented bookselling as we know it. | Literary Hub
• Not just Trump: Jonathan Rabb on the deep progressive roots of the American South. | Literary Hub
• Ten books that don’t exist, but should: unfinished, lost, withdrawn, and otherwise tempting us… | Literary Hub
• From Alice Munro to Jenny Zhang, ten short stories for the International Day of the Girl. | Literary Hub
• Beyond the bifurcation between “motherly-looking” and “chillingly horrifying:” Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson’s life and work. | New York Review of Books
• What are you doing here? A short story by Diane Williams. | Granta
• Maggie Nelson’s ten desert island books, from an unread work by Henry James to the poetry of T’ao Ch’ien. | T Magazine
• “Literally every major newspaper in the world wanted to speak with me about Beyoncé… I thought: are books really that unimportant to you?” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on “****Flawless” and feminism. | De Volkskrant
• One poet attempts to solve the timeless question: How should a poet make money? | The Point
• A “daisy chain of hilarity” presenting 30 writers’ favorite humorous books. | Slate
• This is a dream, the continuation of a dream: An excerpt from A Greater Music by Bae Suah. | Fiction Advocate
• The Elena Ferrante takes keep rolling in: Her translator Ann Goldstein and Jeanette Winterson have weighed in; America and Europe were both angry, but for different reasons; her new nonfiction book seems “to fly in the face of her declaration” that writing should exist independently from the media. | Vulture, The Guardian, The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Now you can eat like your favorite writer! Recipes by Jeffery Renard Allen and Aimee Bender, from The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook · Books making news this week: the great Le Guin (and everyone else) · The volley of tomatoes: from I’ll Sell You A Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos, trans. Rosalind Harvey · Water Is Life: A Poem For the Standing Rock by Demian DinéYazhi’