LitHub Daily: August 11, 2015

• Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite on their unpublished “drawer novel” plus the novels that won’t see the light of day from Anthony Doerr, Lauren Holmes, and Marlon James. | Literary Hub
• One year after Michael Brown’s death, reflections on #BlackLivesMatter from thirteen young, black writers.  | Literary Hub
• “How white people react is not in my control, and thus can never be in my consideration.” Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay in conversation. | Barnes & Noble Review
• “But neither of the pipes with cocaine came from my garden,” the ghost of Shakespeare protests to the very disappointed scientists who found his weed pipes. | The Independent
• Twitter sage Joyce Carol Oates investigates the motive for metaphor. | NYRB
• It can be like James Joyce out there: on the importance of creating narratives to understand our own existences. | The Atlantic
• Elsewhere in narratives, the Guggenheim invited writers ranging from John Ashbery to Jeanette Winterson to create stories about the artworks featured in a recent exhibition (which is also available online). | The Paris Review
• A book of Charles Bukowski (charmingly!) mansplaining writing to everyone, including Shakespeare. | The New York Times
• Literature centered on language itself: Naja Marie Aidt selects her ten favorite novels by poets. | Publishers Weekly
• I would say I am a storyteller: Les Standiford on resisting specialization, Aristotelian criticism, and the pleasures of exploration. | The Rumpus

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