LitHub Daily: January 22, 2016

• Morgan Jerkins on cliché, stereotype, and the struggle to write blackness. | Literary Hub
• “His music isn’t cold; it’s throbbing with desire. With warmth and love.” Simon Critchley on David Bowie. | Guernica
• Perceiving and misperceiving the world: How Cervantes animated his characters. | Arcade
• “How does it feel?” and other questions for Sunil Yapa from his former teacher Colum McCann. | The Barnes & Noble Review
• On Robert Pinsky’s videogame, the work of a poet having fun. | Mindwheel, The New Yorker
• Writing blindly, in bursts: Sybille Lacan recalls her father. | Asymptote Journal
• Citizens need to communicate their desires themselves, directly: On David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• The ammunition lives on, and on, and on: Visiting Peleliu, home to one of the bloodiest battles of WWII. | Longreads
• In which former The New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier supplies his cruel cackling as a quote, announces that he will launch a new journal with Steve Jobs’s widow. | New York Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: Are the KIDS all right? Larry Clark’s cautionary tale of teen nihilism, two decades on · A west coast writing community: Edan Lepucki on Writing Workshops Los Angeles · Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth: From Volker Weidermann’s Ostend, translated by Carol Janeway