LitHub Daily: November 11, 2016

TODAY: In 1922, Kurt Vonnegut, pictured here in his study a few months before Slaughterhouse-Five was published, is born. 

• The Literary is Political:  Garnette Cadogan on staying and fighting · John Berger had a bad feeling that Trump would win · What can art do after President Trump? · Edie Meidav on moving from mourning to hope · Poems for consolation and resolve · Literary and crime fiction to read when the real world gets too bleak. | Literary Hub
• So long, Leonard Cohen: The words and works of one of our great poets · With Leonard Cohen at the end of the world. | Literary Hub
• “Language has deserted the tongue that is thirsty.” On the violent language of the refugee crisis. | Literary Hub
• “Believe the autocrat. He means what he says.” Masha Gessen provides 6 rules for survival under autocracy. | NYRB
• “But listen, love, because I need to remind you of something and I need you to remember it extra well over the next four years: This is our street.” Mira Jacob, Nicole Chung, and Manuel Gonzales on parenting under President Trump. | BuzzFeed Reader
• “I’m not a big believer in the romantic idea that art can heal. What it does do is bring things to the surface, and then I go see my psychiatrist.” An interview with Rabih Alameddine. | Electric Literature
• Sooner or later, we’ll find that poetry has been waiting for us: Don Share on the comfort America is finding in poems. | The Atlantic
• “Here I am feeling for the first time how profoundly sustaining and validating it is to recognize not only myself but also my culture in literature.” On the importance of representation and seeing oneself in The Sympathizer. | Ploughshares
• I wanted to represent these characters who are complex and human and odd: An interview with Brit Bennett. | The Creative Independent
• “Reporters’ eagerness first to ridicule Trump and his supporters, then dismiss them, and finally to actively lobby and argue for their defeat have led us to a moment when the entire journalistic enterprise needs to be rethought and rebuilt.” On the failure of reporting in this year’s election. | Columbia Journalism Review
• A new issue of the Critical Flame, including an essay by Julia Kristeva’s husband, a conversation about publishing Indian translations, and a piece on Brazilian women writers, is now online. | The Critical Flame

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