LitHub Daily: December 21, 2015

TODAY: In 1892, British writer Dame Rebecca West, who covered the Nuremberg Trials for The New Yorker, is born. 

• Dubravka Ugrešić on refugees, dislocation, and the moral crisis of our time. | Literary Hub
• “I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.” Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich discusses and shares passages from her book “about the history of a utopia.” | Financial Times
• “Now I’m starting to hate the word famous.” Eileen Myles discusses a poet’s relation to time, the fucked position of women-in-poetry lineage, and being in the guts of Transparent. | Interview Magazine
• “I write for your brain in a quiet room.” On the light and profound poetry of Kay Ryan. | Cold Front
• “It’s not that diversity doesn’t exist, it’s that people aren’t given the opportunities to be groomed for these positions.” Saeed Jones discusses BuzzFeed’s Emerging Writers Fellowship. | Paper Magazine, BuzzFeed
• Sentimentality vs. the “subtle, nuanced, cool, and true” novel: Graphing emotional potency by genre. | The New Republic
• For those who would like to take a break from the holiday cheer: A literary guide to mortality. | Signature Reads
• The other Jonathan (Safran Foer) has another book coming in September. | The New York Times
• Remembering the immoderate modernists, literature’s biggest partiers. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Ben Yagoda traces the rise of the hit Christmas song · From the 1851 Gold Rush to today: inside Books Inc. · Celebrating the best books of the year, from Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted A Little Life

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