THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1939, Finnegans Wake is published .   “It is absurd that people who look and pray like me and my cousins and uncles, with hearts that could fit in my chest, will die today from bombs forged and dropped by my tax dollars.” Kaveh Akbar considers genocide and justice in his Dayton Literary Peace Prize speech. | Lit Hub Clara Hillis on the poetics of Light and Thread , Han Kang’s first nonfiction work to be published in English. | Lit Hub Criticism Elizabeth Zaleski compiles a list of the Western literary canon’s greatest farts . | Lit Hub Reading List Xuela Zhang writes against righteousness in poetry : “I am nauseated by the certainties transnational poets are expected to keep performing.” | Lit Hub Poetry Maria Semple on why she’s “very open and proud that I write the same novel over and over. ” | Lit Hub In Conversation This week in literary history, Lordy Byron completes a feat of romance, tragedy, and athletics by swimming across the Hellespont .…