LitHub Daily: April 14, 2016

TODAY: In 1818, Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language is printed. 

• Karl Ove Knausgaard on early failure, faulty memory, and writing 20 pages a day. | Literary Hub
• Adam Gopnik on the ur-gentrification story of Place des Vosges. | Literary Hub
• Jon Ronson, in search of the genuinely new. | Literary Hub
• Former first lady Louisa Catherine Adams’s conflicted early feminism. | Literary Hub
• “I am a living demonstration that what I wrote is true.” An interview with official Living Legend Mario Vargas Llosa. | The New York Times
• A new reissue of Marianne Moore’s Observations will give “back to us the Moore that Williams, Pound, and Eliot knew.” | The New Yorker
• “I don’t know what I am, but I do know how I feel.” An excerpt from Alejandro Jodorowsky ’s Albina and the Dog-Men. | Electric Literature
• Celebrating the possibilities of facticity and the poeticization of form: On the writing of Maggie Nelson, Ben Lerner, and Brian Blanchfield and the revenge of poetry. | Flavorwire
• On Dorothy Parker’s “wit, flair, talent, and near genius for self-destruction.” | NYRB
• “If I am sexually assaulted/violated/abused/harassed by a man in my community, what am I to do?” Writers respond to sexual violence in literary spaces. | Apogee Journal
• Pamela Paul on the element of surprise, the changing world of book reviews, and reading books years after their pop culture moment. | Poets & Writers
• “I found that I wanted to write something about that feeling, that combination of empathy and impotence.” An interview with Kim Brooks. | Tin House

Also on Literary Hub: Win Bassett on when teaching is a calling · From Molly Prentiss’s Tuesday Nights in 1980 · The life of a city: from Jean-Paul Clébert’s Paris Vagabond

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