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

Announcing the Long List for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize: Recognized and celebrated first novels of the year in fiction. (TCFF)
5 Emerging Women Authors who Intimately Explore Place: Five women who brilliantly portray setting as an additional character in their literature. (Electric Lit)
Know Your History, Know Your Greatness: An English teacher includes Canadian abolitionist movement in her curriculum. (Hazlitt)
Today is Amazon's Prime Day (GalleyCat)
The 200 Happiest Words in Literature: "Researchers asked people to rate the happiness quotient of the words they encountered." (The Atlantic)
Novella by Saddam Hussein gets English translation: "Described by publisher as ‘a mix between Game of Thrones and the UK House of Cards-style fiction.’" (The Guardian)
Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. poet laureate, responds to gun violence with a new poem: A poet responds to the latest gun violence in the way he knows best. (The LA Times)
Black British writer wins major German-language fiction award: Sharon Dodua Otoo wins "arguably the most prestigious award in the German language." (The Guardian)
James Patterson Makes Forbes List of Top Paid Celebrities (GalleyCat)

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