LitHub Daily: November 4, 2015

TODAY: In 1899, Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is published. 

• Herta Muller on the hardship of intimacy, the oppressiveness of the state, and the poetry of Liu Xia. | Literary Hub
• Elizabeth Gilbert talks to Paul Holdengraber about self-loathing and the joy of work, on this week’s Phone Call From Paul. | Literary Hub
• Gnarled trunks spoke a primeval tongue: fiction by Robert Walser, translated by Lydia Davis and Susan Bernofsky. | Asymptote Journal
• On John Williams’s cult novel Stoner, “the story of a man whose suffering, and minor successes, were lost to history.” | The New Republic
• Type PLAY to begin: a computer game based on Michael Clune’s memoir about computer games. | The Paris Review
• César Vallejo on grammar, surrealism, Charles Chaplin, and the personal lives of artists. | Lana Turner Journal
• “Any ambiguity or intrigue to be found in a HONY photo is chased out into the open, and, ultimately, annihilated by Stanton’s captions, and by the satisfaction that he seems to want his followers to feel.” On Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York: Stories. | The New Yorker
• Mary Gaitskill on her favorite passage in Anna Karenina, in which Anna reveals hidden Annas. | The Atlantic
• Rescuing five bestselling, 19th-century female authors from the abyss of the patriarchy. | NPR
• Talking with the founder of Cubanabooks, a non-profit publisher dedicated to disseminating work by Cuban women. | Cubanabooks, Broadly

Also on Literary Hub: Roxane Gay has won the Freedom to Write award from PEN Center USA ·  Reading Henry Dumas after Trayvon Martin · Translating a book in order to save it: the rebirth of Alessandro Spina’s 1,300-page epic · A poem-a-day countdown to the Irish Arts Center Poetry Fest: day twelve, Kerry Hardie · The letters from Vladimir to Vera

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