LitHub Daily: February 16, 2016

TODAY: In 1957, beloved host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton, is born.

• Kiese Laymon: What Bill Cosby taught me about sexual violence and flying. | Literary Hub
• Charles Simic on Aleksandar Tišma and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. | Literary Hub
• The language of money was complicated: A short story by Don DeLillo. | The New Yorker
• On Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland, “a melocomic novel of experience.” | The Atlantic
• “It’s not magic. You just keep your eyes open.” An interview with essay champion and writer John D’Agata. | Guernica
• “Publishing in Russia is the art of the possible. That is not the same thing as censorship. Or is it?” On the self-censoring Russian publishing industry. | The Intercept
• “My head had already set off on its own trip and only the shell of my body remained neglected in the backseat.” An excerpt from Seeing Red. | Tin House
• “This book is radical and lesbian and feminist and queer before it is Oulipian.” An interview with Emma Ramadan, the translator of Anne Garréta’s Sphinx. | Asymptote Journal
• Can we be a body that is constantly obscured? On the Real, the Not Real, and poetry performances. | Entropy
• “I would venture to assume that all Muslim Americans felt the weight of this paradox in the years after September 11th, and never more so than when at the airport.” On hate crimes, racial awareness, and the post 9/11 world. | The Rumpus

Also on Literary Hub: 30 books in 30 days: Counting down the NBCC finalists with David Biespiel on Frank Stanford‘s “Poetry Busts Guts” · Books making news this week: soldiers, mathematicians, and pornographers · Translating debate insanity: the next installment of spinglish · A modern Shakespeare: From Man Booker prize-winner Howard Jacobson’s Shylock is My Name.

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