LitHub Daily: July 8, 2015

TODAY: 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, great poet, snappy dresser, lousy swimmer, dies. 

• From slave ships to the 9th Ward, Brenda Quant traces desire lines, “earthen paths etched by repeated footfalls.” | Literary Hub
• The owner of William Carlos Williams’s much depended upon red wheelbarrow has been properly credited. | The New York Times
• Teju Cole drops a mixtape, discusses clubbing in Lagos. | The Paris Review
• 22,000 images (including a sketch of a little rabbit eating a carrot) by 25 renowned authors (including Conrad, Thoreau, Hopkins, and Wilde) are now available online. | Hyperallergic
• Robo-Pliny’s observations on sheep, via rhetorical figures harvested by metaphorical drones. | The New Yorker
• “As human beings we’re all short-story enthusiasts. It’s the novel that’s the oddity.” Graham Swift on the separation and contest between literary forms. | The Guardian
• Florida man drinks to excess, picks fights, writes The Old Man and the Sea: a literary field guide to the Sunshine State. | The Oyster Review
• On the Möbius strip of Namwali Serpell’s fiction and of the critical and creative brains. | The New Inquiry
• The legend of Oreo: an excerpt from Fran Ross’s groundbreaking satire. | The Offing

Also on Literary Hub: Enrique Vila-Matas takes a walk in Manhattan · Rae Armantrout on the intersection of art, science, and life · In Eastern Oklahoma, an excerpt from Margaret Verble’s debut, Maud’s Line

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