Lit Hub Daily: April 18, 2018

• Rebecca Solnit: The myth of “real” America just won’t go away. | Lit Hub
• Kristen Arnett suggests some essential DIY library tricks in a time of dwindling budgets. | Lit Hub
• Let us look back at the time Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls and Ginger Space said: “Money makes the world what it is… a world infested with evil.” | Lit Hub
• From Alexander Chee to Leslie Jamison, Larissa Pham on the life-affirming generosity of the writer’s memoir. | Lit Hub
• “I can never sleep the night before I publish a negative review. Some reviews I’ve written still depress me years later.” An interview with the Washington Post‘s Ron Charles. | Book Marks
• From Arthur Conan Doyle to Idra Novey, 26 crime writing poets. | CrimeReads
• “Find My Friends rewards a groundwork of trust that’s already laid, magnifying what we know to be true about the people we love.” Kathleen Alcott on an app that (consensually) tracks your friends’ locations. | The New York Times Magazine
• I like the glamour of a phrase shorn from its context: An interview with Wayne Koestenbaum. | Bookforum
• “It’s a horrible feeling starting a new story.” Jane Rawson is on a mission to figure out who, exactly, is reading short stories (and while she’s at it, what are short stories, really?) | Overland
• In Sarajevo, Dan Sheehan visits a museum dedicated to the memory of childhoods disrupted by war. | Lit Hub
• Not without a whiff of irony, Amazon is developing an adaptation of pioneering cyberpunk writer William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral. | The Verge
• Exploring Prince Edward Island and the magical landscapes of Anne of Green Gables. | Lit Hub
• B.A. Van Sise’s creative portraits of contemporary poets, from Rita Dove to Jane Hirshfield. | BuzzFeed
• To lament the fact of your lamentations in English, English being your first defeat: A poem by Solmaz Sharif. | Poetry Foundation

Also on Literary Hub: Mariana Enriquez on politics and writing horror, in conversation with David Leo Rice · Emerging writers in San Francisco at the Racket Reading Series · A short story by James Kelman from his latest collection, That Was a Shiver.