LitHub Daily: July 22, 2016

TODAY: In 1849, poet Emma Lazarus, the author of “The New Colossus” which appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, is born. 

• Living with racial battle fatigue: why fighting microagressions can feel like treading water. | Literary Hub
• Josip Novakovich on a life measured between glasses of wine. | Literary Hub
• On Rosamond Carr and the orphans of the Rwandan genocide: Nora Anne Brown on following in Carr’s footsteps at Mugongo. | Literary Hub
• “This book constitutes my discovery of and inquiry into questions that I’d always had both as an African immigrant and an African American.” An interview with Yaa Gyasi. | ZYZZYVA
• “How’d you hear about her all the way in New York?” Former Southerner Wei Tchou visits Flannery O’Connor’s farm. | The Paris Review
• David L. Ulin on the overlooked, wickedly twisted short stories of Roald Dahl. | The New Yorker
• “I fear that if we don’t resolve our intrinsic conflicts—our inherent national flaws—that our story will end in ruin.” Mat Johnson on America’s deeply complicated national narrative. | NPR
• At twelve, girls are too old for Heidi and too young for Carrie: A comic by Lynda Barry. | The New York Times
• “Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke:” How William Burroughs’s drug experiments inspired research on Parkinson’s disease. | The Guardian
• Drifting towards the mythological yet returning us to the kitchen table: On contemporary Southern women’s poetry. | Electric Literature
• In news that will shock no one, Kenneth Goldsmith has decided to defend Melania Trump’s plagiarism. | Quartz

Also on Literary Hub: On literary plagues: from the historical to the fantastic, how disease scars us all · Speaking with the legendary Goat Man · Those eyes, unchanged: from If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene

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