LitHub Daily: August 25, 2015

• Emma Donoghue on helping to make a movie adaptation of her novel, Room: learning the jargon of movie production and trying not to get in the way. | Literary Hub
• The best in “covertly-sponsored instruments of state power:” literary magazines funded by the CIA during the Cold War, ranked. | The Awl
• Extend your (nearly finished) Women in Translation Month into a Women in Translation Year! | Flavorwire
• Morrissey’s debut novel will be released next month; we assume the plot will consist of former lab animals overthrowing the British Royal Family. | The Independent
• Writing about obsessions and obsessing over writing: an interview with Susan Shapiro. | Tin House
• More Hamlet than Emma B. or Anna K.: on Hausfrau’s thick fog of psychic pain. | Seattle Review of Books
• Swagger, power, the demonic, and Drake: Dorothea Lasky on her new poetry collection, Rome. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Wrestling with the logic of the paradox: an interview with Wendy S. Walters. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• On radical librarians, archives, and the quest to catalog inclusively. | Queen Mob’s Teahouse

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