LitHub Daily: June 1, 2015

• Discovering a once thriving Jewish community on North Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. | Literary Hub
• “If you develop an obsession with hybridity, you’re only creating a new norm.” Maggie Nelson, interviewed by Sarah Nicole Prickett, on resisting binaries in living, writing, and subtitling. | Bookforum
• A new platform called MacGuffin will allow writers to upload short stories and poems, and record the precise limits of their readers’ attention spans. | The Guardian
• Performing comedy and tragedy simultaneously: on John Berryman’s “strange duality of identity.” | NYRB
• Science fiction’s growing concern with gender and sexuality addresses “the ways in which the loss of social order and stability disproportionately affects women.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Kelly Link on her new collection, which examines “the aspects of contemporary life that seem charged with significance because they’re so newly visible.” | Fiction Writers Review
• Is Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life the long-awaited Great Gay Novel? | The Atlantic
• Authors behaving badly: original letters reveal D.H. Lawrence flirting with his sister-in-law, Lewis Carroll attempting to justify one of his “child friendships,” and more. | The Independent
• An award-winning teacher was fired for teaching teens, notorious sexters, a very graphic Allen Ginsberg poem. | The Daily Beast

Also on Literary Hub: Is an American poet actually a Russian poet? · Inside Green Apple Books where a “favorite section, conceptually, is the Circus, Magic, and Hobos” · A heartwarming story about weird, rural neighbors