Good evening literary fans. Here's some literary news and commentary to add to your weekend reading list.

Madeleine Dubus On Hearing Her Father's Voice Again: "Finding a way to mourn a father beloved by the literary world." (LitHub)
How Can Success Still Make You Feel Like A Failure? A look at writer Lidia Yuknavitch's TED Talk.(NPR)
If politics has become stranger than fiction, we novelists must try harder: How politics is rendered in fiction. (The Guardian)
Body Language: A debut story from one of Granta's new voices. (Granta)
Why All This Love for Saddam Hussein's New Novella? The hype surrounding this Christmas release. (Book Riot)
Women Crime Writers Are Not a Fad: Praise for author Megan Abbott. (LitHub)
Memories of Mexico: The unfinished last work of cult writer Lucia Berlin. (The New Yorker)
Look Up and See! On the biodiversity of New York City's birds. (The New York Review of Books)

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