LitHub Daily: August 14, 2015

• Charles Bukowski’s rules for writing: be honest, have a few drinks, submit everything, among other gems. | Literary Hub
• Why Taylor Swift has inspired at least nine times the amount of biographies as Joan Didion (because Taylor Swift is at least 1,000 times less cool). | The Atlantic
• More than grit, grimness, and quiet dignity: on Lucia Berlin’s expectation defying working-class fiction. | The New Republic
• Reading David Brooks’s ill-advised response to Between the World and Me as the first step (failure) in his own Road to Character. | The Millions
• Breaking the glass ceiling of ennui literature: on Ottessa Moshfegh’s disturbing and desirous Eileen. | Bookforum
• On Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, conceptual diptych and survival tome. | The New Inquiry
• “One never really understands a book unless one copies it.” A collage of quotes offering thoughts on translation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• On Katsushika Hokusai, willfully misunderstanding Asian culture, and the “rugged spiritualists of American literature.” | Ploughshares
• Humanity’s quest for immortality through writing continues, even as the apocalypse looms ever closer. | Cleaver Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: Bukowski’s biographer on searching for and editing posthumous Bukowski · More than West Wing and House of Cards: A long weekend in DC’s lush literary universe · Happy Birthday, Gary Larson! · Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me in ten quotes · Virginia Woolf’s In the Orchard, a story edited by T. S. Elliot