Lit List: Tuesday June 14, 2016

Author Chuck Palahniuk (Source: Wikipedia)

Author Chuck Palahniuk (Source: Wikipedia)

Good evening literary fans. Here's what we read today that you should too.

  • Chuck Palahniuk to publish 'provocative' colouring-in book: The Fight Club author is coming out with his first coloring book for adults and his second short-story collection (The Guardian) .
  • Emma Cline, whose debut book The Girls was released today, discusses when her interest in Charles Manson first began. (The New York Times
  • Five Books Making News This Week: Annie Proulx and Emma Cline's much-anticipated novels hit the shelves. (Lit Hub)
  • Gregory Rabassa, renowned translator, dead at 94: The esteemed translator and "essential gateway to the 1960s Latin American 'boom,'" has passed away. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  • The New York Times Best Sellers ranking for the week of June 19th. (The New York Times)
  • Today's new releases including titles by Proulx; Ausubel; Notaro; de Botton (The Millions)
  • Fiction writer Joe Okonkwo discusses his debut novel Jazz Moon about the gay black entertainers of 1920s in Harlem and Paris (Electric Lit)