LitHub Daily: August 3, 2016

TODAY: In 1924, Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, dies. 

• The fire next time is here: Jesmyn Ward on race in America. | Literary Hub
• On the politics of Europe’s new literary superstars: Édouard Louis, Yahya Hassan, and Athena Farrokhzad take on class, race and politics. | Literary Hub
• Werner Herzog on volcanoes, North Korea, and the internet: Paul Holdengraber in conversation with the man who once ate his shoe. | Literary Hub
• Rape culture is just culture-culture: Amy Gentry on agency, victimhood, and rape narratives in Western culture. | Electric Literature
• Robert Moor on his transformation into a mythic beast via the Appalachian Trail. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On Philip Roth’s distaste for movies and the difficulty of translating his work to the screen. | The New Yorker
• Distilling the natural world to facts and wonder: On naturalist writing, from ancient Chinese astronomers to Carl Sagan. | NPR
• Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has been announced as the next selection for Oprah’s Book Club and is available for sale over a month ahead of its original publication date. | CBS
• Forgive me for this awful hurt: Masha Hamilton writes a letter to an ex-lover, on the occasion of his suicide. | Longreads
• In a step towards greater transparency, AWP has presented the demographics for presenters of accepted events. | Association of Writers & Writer Programs
• The Not the Booker’s (very) longlist, which features 146 books that were not nominated for the Man Booker Prize, is open for voting. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: An incomplete atlas of fantastic maps: Susan Daitch on literature’s attempt to map the countries yet to come · On the many ways and reasons to mix poetry and prose · I only keep good memories: from Nadja Spiegelman’s I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

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