LitHub Daily: August 22, 2016

• How the writer listens: Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich in conversation with John Freeman, plus an excerpt from Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. | Literary Hub
• God, guns, and survival, deep in the heart of the dust bowl: Rae Meadows on hardscrabble life in the Oklahoma panhandle. | Literary Hub
• “It is crucial that we try to understand what lies behind the meanings we give to wild animals:” Helen Macdonald on the experience that inspired H is for Hawk. | The Guardian
• Garth Greenwell shares his ten favorite books, from the late poetry of Louise Glück to A Little Life. | T Magazine
• On the legacy of I Love Dick, the product of “much more than vanity or navel-gazing, and proof that the narcissistic impulse need not be scary.” | Broadly
• “The more Harlem changes, the more I’m motivated to do something.” On the battle to save Langston Hughes’ home. | CNNMoney
• Ramona Ausubel on trusting her own obsessions, how stories change the real chemistry of the world, and the structures that contain us. | The Rumpus
• “Poetry affects my novel writing by allowing me to understand it is possible to take great leaps in your imagination and follow through on them.” An interview with Jenni Fagan. | The Indianola Review
• On the growth of art catalog printing, which remains “defiantly analog.” | Los Angeles Times
• Join us on September 12 to kick off the eleventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival, featuring “ambrosial rivers” of free drinks and DJ Shiftee-induced dancing. | Electric Literature

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: the visually distinctive, spiritually familiar Oxford Exchange · Otto Penzler’s 5 crime picks for the end of summer · The impossible dream of crossing: from Krys Lee’s How I Became a North Korean