LitHub Daily: January 4, 2016

TODAY: In 1965, Thomas Stearns Eliot (pictured here with his sister and cousin) dies. 

• A brief history of books that do not exist. | Literary Hub
• A preview of 101 books and 8 poetry collections coming out in 2016. | Brooklyn Magazine, NPR
• Searching for Robert Walser’s hands, scouts for his body and conveyors of his words. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “My book is a kind of love letter to the city as it was and before it got overtaken by money.” An interview with Luc Sante. | The Guardian
• Monsters, quests, and brave new worlds: tracing the basic archetypes of all stories ever told. | The Atlantic
• A review of the memoir written by Hunter S. Thompson’s “shy, sensitive, bullied, Dungeons & Dragons-playing” son. | The New York Times
• Due to “a fluke of fate — and international copyright law,” both Mein Kampf and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl have entered the public domain. | NPR
• “The kinds of stories that move me are the ones where we continue to find ourselves shrouded in the unknowingness of being.” Poetry by Jennifer S. Chen. | Entropy
• Lumbersexual, Brexit, and beyond: the defining words of 2015. | Signature Reads

Also on Literary Hub: Literary resolutions from a straight, white male · When your neighborhood doesn’t have a bookstore, open one: an interview with Hullabaloo Books · From Keith Lee Morris’s Travelers Rest

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