Lit Hub Daily: September 15, 2017

• When to heal and when to hurt: life as a combat medic in Iraq. | Literary Hub
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with some writing (and reading) advice. | Literary Hub
• Marlon James, Jamaica Kincaid, Colum McCann and others discuss the American immigrant experience. | Literary Hub
• Meet the German-Jewish refugees who created one of the most beloved children’s books of all time. | Literary Hub
• Should we be sending whale song into deep space? | Literary Hub
• From the Holocaust to Hiroshima, on what it means to be a “survivor.” | Literary Hub
• “If there are those who are shocked by it, I am tempted to say, ‘All right, go ahead and be shocked.’” Dorothy Parker on The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, who died yesterday at 91. | Book Marks
• “It was hard to tell what Cubans thought about a dead white American being promoted as one of their country’s icons.” How Havana sells Hemingway as a tourist attraction. | VICE
• “To point out that there are continuities is not to deny that there are new and novel aspects to this present terror.” Junot Díaz on Trump, immigration, and community. | On Being
• A planned protest of the new It adaptation organized by a (fake) professional clown has been revealed as a publicity stunt. | NBC
• “She will perhaps acknowledge here because it’s the end of the story, that this is her entire goal as a fiction writer: to show how often people try and fail to love one another.” Lynn Steger Strong on the story she’ll never write. | Catapult
• On the slow disappearance of fireflies, which for years “have helped humans tell ourselves the knotty, paradoxical story of who we think we are.” | Jezebel
• “There exists at least one person who has worked intimately—and independently—with both men, and has lived to tell about it.” When Barry Hannah met Robert Altman. | Oxford American
• Danielle Steel writes at a custom desk made from gigantic replicas of her own books. | Vanity Fair

Also on Lit Hub: On modernizing China by destroying its language · Finding peace in the home of the old Japanese gods · An excerpt from Wioletta Greg’s new novel, Swallowing Mercury.