Lit Hub Daily: September 7, 2017

• How bad do things have to get before we talk about war? Josephine Rowe on writing your way through a Montreal winter. | Literary Hub
• Death in the borderlands: scenes from an emergency clinic in the Sonoran Desert. | Literary Hub
• The magic and risk of a handwritten letter: Meghan Forbes on a lost and beautiful art. | Literary Hub
• How the best academics survive the writing grind: a compendium of anecdotal writing advice. | Literary Hub
• The playlist we need now: what to listen to while reading Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. | Literary Hub
• “For those of us who know Dreamers, who live with or near them, who work with them, who love them, it’s puzzling that their value to this country is being so casually discarded.” Edwidge Danticat on the Trump administration’s plan to end DACA. | The New Yorker
• “Why do you think when a person goes to a comedy club, they don’t often think, I’m seeing art?” Sheila Heti interviews her brother David Heti, a stand-up comic. | The Point
• I actually want to seppuku an entire country: Jenny Zhang performs her poem “Seppuku.” | Nylon
• The city of Detroit has hired America’s first “chief storyteller” to “give Detroiters a way to connect and discuss issues that don’t get covered by the city’s traditional media.” | The Guardian
• “I think what the book is really about is less ‘sad Danez,’ it’s more about when you have to touch your mortality for the first time.” An interview with Danez Smith. | City Pages
• The Kathy Acker in my book is a hologram: An interview with Chris Kraus. | Granta
• Shockingly, Will—a drama series that “chronicled the young years of William Shakespeare to a rock music soundtrack”—has been cancelled after one season. | Deadline
• “There is danger, heroic courage, successful achievement, strange and challenging experiences, but all are related in the low key of a life-long perspective.” Looking back at Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop. | Book Marks

Also on Lit Hub: Mark Haskell Smith on shepherding his book Salty to the big screen · Lisa Levy weighs in on the Stieg Larsson franchise, two books after its originator’s death · Read a story from Joanna Walsh’s story collection, Worlds from the Word’s End.