Lit Hub Daily: January 16, 2018

• Mary O’Connell on the largesse of her old teacher, Denis Johnson · Listen to Nick Offerman read a Denis Johnson short story. | Literary Hub
• “Every talent has its terms… Not everyone can be fruitful forever.” Philip Roth is still retired. | The New York Times Book Review
• “We are grownups: We can make up our own minds, one way or the other.” Margaret Atwood waded into the #MeToo discourse with a piece defending her decision to support Steven Galloway; many tweets ensued. | The Globe and Mail, Twitter
• “As far as I’m concerned, poetry is the best thing that exists in the universe.” Speaking with Kaveh Akbar, poet and founder of Divedapper. | NPR
• Leonora Carrington, Cristina Peri Rossi, and more: Cristina Rivera Garza curates a list of essential Spanish-language female authors. | Publishers Weekly
• An update about film adaptations of classic books with numbers in their titles: HBO has released a teaser trailer for Fahrenheit 451, and Catch-22 is coming to Hulu. | YouTube, Deadline
• “Folks are often surprised how invested I am in experimental art and performance art history. But that allows me and my work the element of surprise.”An interview with poet and performance artist Gabrielle Civil. | Fanzine
• Horror daddy Stephen King will receive the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award. | The New York Times
• In the biggest literary-political scandal since Fire and Fury, the Queen’s bra fitter has lost her royal warrant after publishing a book entitled Storm in a D-Cup. | BBC
• “Miss Sontag has written a ponderable, vivacious, beautifully living and quite astonishingly American book.” A 1966 review of Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation. | Book Marks

Also on Literary Hub: A love letter to Borges: Read Susan Sontag’s homage to a master · Who gets to write about gentrification? Naima Coster writes from the center, not the margins · Read from Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig