LitHub Daily: December 29, 2015

• Sarah Knight on giving up editing to become a writer, and not giving a f*ck. | Literary Hub
• “Today we are going to have a nice lesson.” A short story by Hilary Mantel. | The London Review of Books
• Sharon Olds on finding inspiration in tedious hymns and gorgeous Psalms, receiving enraged rejection slips, and writing “less worse” poetry. | Divedapper
• “He carried the bowl and the saltshaker into the living room, sat down next to Marcia’s dead body, salted the popcorn, ate several handfuls, and turned on the television.” A short story by Ottessa Moshfegh. | The New Yorker
• “It’s not Marjorie Perloff that must leave the poetry world; we must leave it.” Fred Moten responds to Marjorie Perloff’s shockingly racist defense of Kenneth Goldsmith. | Entropy
• Existentialist cafés, blessed patriarchs, and Don DeLillo’s 17th novel: ten books to look forward to in 2016. | BBC
• To speak the name of a ghost is to invite it into your life: A short story by Catherine Chung. | Catapult
• On the dark, neurotic adult coloring books of the 60s. | The New Republic
• Paper is beautiful, edges are beautiful, fonts are beautiful, text is beautiful: 10 years of art made from printed books. | Hyperallergic

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