LitHub Daily: July 27, 2016

TODAY: In 1916, writer Elizabeth Hardwick is born; here she’s chatting with writer Darryl Pinckney. 

• My longest healthy relationship is with the dead poet Catullus. | Literary Hub
• Jay-Z and Morrissey, unexpected masters of the music memoir. | Literary Hub
• Lisa Levy on the private pleasures of pre-internet fandom. | Literary Hub
• The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced, including Paul Beatty, J.M. Coetzee, Ottessa Moshfegh, and A.L. Kennedy. | The Man Booker Prizes
• Hua Hsu and Yaa Gyasi discuss feelings of terror, problematic teachers, and the way we fit ourselves into narratives. | The Fader
• “The value of my book and myself had changed, even if the book remained as invaluable to me as when I wrote it.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the aftermath of his Pulitzer win. | The Guardian
• On The Girls and American Girls, which both “explore the story of the Manson murders by shoving the ringleader to the side and putting the girls (and girlhood itself) at the center of the narrative.” | The Atlantic
• “It never was about the work for him, about earning to take care of family, securing their futures, meeting responsibilities. It was about something darker, some festering pain that no amount of public adulation could heal.” Joe McGinniss, Jr. on his father’s fall from literary grace. | The New Yorker
• Liz Moore on talking to computers, writing her way out of corners, and the importance of reading. | Electric Literature
• “Likely he would comment on my attempt to individuate from my mother, to separate. And her need to envelop me. Or, he might even say, to devour me.” A short story by Kate Axelrod. | Joyland
• On the “small, but noticeable, sustained, and continuous” resurgence of indie bookstores. | The Seattle Review of Books
• What books are learning from television: On new methods of serializing literary fiction. | NPR

Also on Literary Hub: Katie Holten on turning words and paragraphs into whole forests · It’s Ok for a poem to be funny: an interview with Tommy Pico · A new poem by Chialun Chang · The high school kids are out for summer: “Darla” from Odie Lindsey’s We Come to Our Senses

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