Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2017

• Can the New York Time’s Modern Love column change a writer’s life? | Literary Hub
• “He comes for the girls.” Philip Roth on the time he got kicked out of Prague. | Literary Hub
• 5 essential linked story collections that are better than novels. | Literary Hub
• We watched the sexy new Shakespeare TV show so you don’t have to. | Literary Hub
• 5 great books you may have overlooked in August. | Literary Hub
• Announcing the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize longlist for nonfiction. | Literary Hub
• High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased: 166 years after its publication, read some of Moby Dick’s earliest reviews. | Book Marks
• “It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.” An excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power. | The Atlantic
• This is not the end nor the beginning: 24 poets on the fight to defend DACA. | Poetry Foundation
• “Sexual Politics remains a model for combining rigor and passion, and a manifesto for a revolution we might yet hope to see completed.” In remembrance of Kate Millet, who died earlier this week. | The New Yorker
• An act of insurrectionary mercy: on Toni Morrison’s Beloved at 30. | VICE
• “The police were shouting and jumping into the air, grasping at the boys’ shoelaces as they drifted upward into the clear night.” Three poems by Eve Ewing. | Guernica
• “The popularity of the form can mainly be blamed on Hollywood.” On the modern market for literary sequels to older, one-off novels. | The Guardian
• The painter who might have offered a master class on the asterisk arts of literature: What Andrew Wyeth can teach us about writing. | The Woven Tale Press

Also on Lit Hub: Jane Lazarre considers her father’s immigration · What the new Salinger biopic gets so wrong · Read Josh Weil’s new story “Hello From Here.”