LitHub Daily: July 7, 2015

• Porochista Khakpour revisits Ben Okri’s masterpiece of the New African canon, The Famished Road. | Literary Hub
• Literary defenders of feminism Cate Marvin, Erin Belieu, and Ann Townsend will now be guiding VIDA from its advisory board. | VIDA
• Highly anticipated books for 2015, ranging from Cancer to Aquarius. | The Millions
• Medieval Japanese poetry: where computer coding meets sexting. | Boing Boing
• On the lost art/anachronism of handwriting, which will never be as beautiful as Curlz MT. | Hazlitt
• Life breaks through: on the overlooked Elizabeth Taylor’s deeply drawn A View of the Harbor. | Full Stop
• “My desire for something more from life than my marginal status as a black woman writer could ever offer was so palpable in [Black Macho’s] pages.” A conversation with Michele Wallace. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
• A critical analysis of assimilation, the “elephant in the room in Chicano/a literary studies.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Taking sides on the theft of Grandma’s silver, when “theft” means “plagiarism” and silver represents poetry. | Little Atoms

Also on Literary Hub: Michele Filgate goes to the Nantucket Book Festival · A Q&A with Julia Fierro · From the lecture hall to the bar, a literary night out in Boston · An excerpt from Will Chancellor’s A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall