LitHub Daily: July 16, 2015

• Ta-Nehisi Coates on the legacy of white plunder, and the killing fields of Chicago. | Literary Hub
• Joshua Mohr on rehab, talking to an invisible dog, and surviving the first day of the rest of his life. | Literary Hub
• Learning Toki Pona, the littlest (123 words) and most metaphorical language, designed for talking about cute and nice (“pona”) things. | The Atlantic
• Breaking down dichotomies in poetry: “raw” vs. “cooked,” good vs. bad, written in high school vs. not. | The New York Times
• Behold, the Summer Issue of Asymptote, including fiction from Ismail Kadare and Mario Levrero, interviews with Yuko Otomo and Valeria Luiselli, and more. | Asymptote Journal
• Imagining Leopold Bloom with an iPhone: the poetics of and metaphors for information overload. | Guernica
• Fugitivity, refuge, and refuse: on the tempestuous poetry of Fred Moten. | The Boston Review
• On forcing oneself to love (or, perhaps, to sincerely enjoying) “smart books by smart guys.” | Full Stop
• Seeking protection from imagined snakes: on growing up with OCD. | The Paris Review

Also on Literary Hub: The fierce new mythologies of Lidia Yuknavitch · An excerpt from Julia Pierpont’s debut, Among the Ten Thousand Things