Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2017

• 90 lines for John Ashbery’s 90th birthday: Eileen Myles, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Muldoon and 87 others in praise of a great American poet. | Literary Hub
• Trump’s shameful, cruel ban on people like me: a president’s attempt to normalize hate. | Literary Hub
• Jennie Melamed on how writing letting take charge of her own story. | Literary Hub
• On the American political circus and the death of satire. | Literary Hub
• The New York Times chief book critic for the past four decades, Michiko Kakutani, has announced her retirement; read one of her earliest reviews (and her highlights and best burns). | Book Marks, The New York Times, The Cut
• “I became an author in New York, but it was like a book party that never ended.” An interview with Danzy Senna. | Vulture
• It was abject and then suddenly I was in America: An excerpt from Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart. | Lenny
• “New York’s pulse is slackened by finance—but its people are still here, circulating through it together.” On Vanishing New York, Arbitrary Stupid Goal, and the rapidly changing New York City. | The New Republic
• Nothing is as important, as crucial, to creativity as play: Amber Sparks in praise of side projects. | Tin House
• Hillary Clinton’s collection of essays has evolved into a “full memoir” entitled What Happened. | The Guardian
• “As a liberal Democrat, I did not want to make a case for a person whose positions, from support of Israeli settlements to his full-throated enthusiasm for the Iraq War, were so opposite to my own—so stupid.”  Benjamin Moser on writing an introduction to Norman Podhoretz’s Making It. | Jewish Quarterly
• “Like choosing an outfit, the books both express and influence how I feel that day.” On the pleasures of short nonfiction works. | The Millions

Also on Lit Hub: The OJ Simpson industry: everyone he knows has a book in them · Salinger, Tolkien, and other TV and film news · “Palomino,” new fiction from Bret Anthony Johnstone, from The Southern Review.