LitHub Daily: July 25, 2016

TODAY: In 1966, Don Draper’s favorite poet Frank O’Hara dies. 

• Knives, not baubles: Clive James on the poetry of Kingsley Amis. | Literary Hub
• On the set of the TV adaptation of I Love Dick, which “might be the least obvious, and most difficult, candidate for adaptation since Game of Thrones.” | Vulture
• Marvel is launching a companion to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther series called World of Wakanda, which will be written by Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey. | The New York Times
• Before he was “a big glooby blob of sad blufush,” Jack Kerouac was the best-looking male writer: Geoff Dyer on a photograph of the author by John Cohen. | The Spectator
• “My references may look different from someone else’s, but in my life I experience the Real Housewives more than I experience Greek myth. These are my contemporary myths and symbols.” An interview with Morgan Parker. | The Paris Review
• “It’s both a gay book and a book about masculinity, about how men cope with their own weakness, their own desires.” An interview with Adam Haslett. | Lambda Literary
• It seems that every lovely thing is tinged with mystery, danger, or complexity: Megan Mayhew Bergman on Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Oxford American
• Ann Goldstein, Deborah Smith, and other literary translators on why, and how, they translate. | The Guardian
• On the rising popularity and evolving technology of audiobooks. | Wall Street Journal

Also on Literary Hub: Designer Jennifer Heuer wonders why she always gets offered women’s titles · How women’s sex organs have been understood in art and history · The pain of smiling: from Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes, translated by Sian Reynolds

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