LitHub Daily: September 2, 2015

TODAY: In 1805, Esteban Echeverria, Romantic Argentinian writer, is born. 

• Mark Andrew Ferguson believes Paul Auster is speaking to him through his books (literally). | Literary Hub
• Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitian novels constitute a single, mighty, modern epic. | Literary Hub
• The writer/poet knows that names confer magic: an excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir, The Lost Sister. | Narrative Magazine
• In which Jonathan Franzen utters “Oh pussycat” aloud and shares how he, unlike us, is able to escape himself. | NPR
• Disruption and inspiration in the Neapolitan novels: on Elena Ferrante and Faustian bargains. | Open Letters Monthly
• The late Oliver Sacks’s last published article explores how Klüver-Bucy syndrome drove a man to insatiably consume entire blocks of cheese (understandable) and child pornography (not so much). | NYRB
• Good night papa Hemingway, granpa Ezra, reverend Eliot: a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. | The Baffler
• Why bother to read before you disparage when we live in the golden age for trolls? | The Paris Review
• The mysterious third manuscript discovered in Harper Lee’s safe deposit box is just a rough draft, not the final part of a Mockingbird trilogy. | The Guardian
• After a “farcical closed-door trial,” investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. | PEN America

Also on Literary Hub: A new poem by Dodie Bellamy · A story by Joy Williams, “In the Park”

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