LitHub Daily: January 8, 2016

TODAY: In 1904, Peter Arno, cartoonist who contributed 99 covers to The New Yorker, is born. 

• Charles Baxter remembers Larry Levis, and a night of true poetic genius. | Literary Hub
• On the vampiric nature of the novel, a potent and intoxicating form of mind control. | Aeon
• Pablo Neruda, Adrienne Rich, and more: the most anticipated poetry books of 2016. | Flavorwire
• Jia Tolentino asks that we stop sharing our plans to read diverse books and just read them. | Jezebel
• In honor of its first birthday, academics and poets contemplate Citizen and its striking impact. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Michael Idov on quitting his job at the highly censored Russian iteration of GQ to write ambiguously audacious screenplays. | The New York Times
• Seeking writing advice from a fictional teacher written by Elizabeth Strout. | Signature Reads
• Visiting one of the last Tolstoyan communes, home to four humans, a deaf cat, and one lumbering cow. | The New Yorker
• UN Ambassador, human rights activist, and former teen witch Emma Watson is starting a feminist book club on Twitter. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Twenty years after her Nobel Prize, we should all be reading more Wislawa Szymborska · Johanna Sinisalo recommends five Finnish writers you should know · The titular story from Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals, out in paperback January 12

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