LitHub Daily: September 8, 2015

TODAY: In 1886, war poet Siegfried Sassoon is born. 

• The time Colum McCann visited the tunnels of NYC, and the people who called them home: “The idea of living underground, in the dark, feeds the most febrile part of our beings.” | Literary Hub
• Matt Bell on becoming the jobs we do: a Labor Day reading list. | Literary Hub
• In which Salman Rushdie discusses Snapchat (“I know that it exists”), Game of Thrones (“I like the girl with the dragons, and I like the short guy”), and the possibility of working with One Direction (“I’m open for offers”). | The New York Times
• Toni Morrison on The Complete Works of Primo Levi, “a brilliant deconstruction of malign forces.” | The Guardian
• “Hitler’s youth resembles my own.” On Knausgaard’s fascination with and attempts to humanize Hitler. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• On the lost meaning in the translation of The Lost Daughter’s title. | Asymptote Journal
• More than just reaction shots: on the GIF novels of Dennis Cooper. | The New Yorker
• A three-way interview between Carmiel Banasky, Alexandra Kleeman, and Matthew Salesses, who watched each other’s manuscripts grow from halfway abandoned into full-fledged books. | The Rumpus
• Sand, satire, and sentimentality: reading Thoreau’s Cape Cod in Cape Cod. | The Millions
• “This sure is a book” and other free blurbs from your favorite writers. | Real Pants

Also on Literary Hub: An interview with Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, a bookstore with a pond in the garden · Five books making news this week: #FerranteFever, #Franzenfreude, Sir Salman, and Clegg’s debut · From Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir, on death

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