LitHub Daily: June 10, 2015

• Irvine Welsh on Hebdo, Porno, and writing in an American vernacular. | Literary Hub
• Nell Zink, an officially Important Author, offers the next candidate for “a fucking huge advance.” | BuzzFeed Books
• “I think if German literature could survive the ‘40s, and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.” An interview with Joshua Cohen. | NPR
• Roxane Gay on the literal and metaphorical dismissal of female voices, feeding trolls, and her ramen days. | Refinery29
• “Come, and take choice of all my library / And so beguile thy sorrow.” On bibliotherapy, the prescription of books for emotional ailments. | The New Yorker
• “I am confronted by an absurd world that kills in the name of the sun or Allah.” An interview with Kamel Daoud. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• In which Damion Searls assigns Beatles members to renowned Norwegian authors (Karl Ove Knausgaard is “the cute one.”) | The Paris Review
• If Ulysses came out in contemporary times, would people still find it to be “an illiterate, underbred book?” | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• “I comb the lines crumpled up in the kaleidoscope she / left me / to replace herself.” A translation of Zerina Zahirović’s “Sketch.” | Asymptote
• “…the color / of my mother’s hands, her flesh, the shrapnel is the same color / the propellers churn.” A poem from our new poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera. | The Poetry Foundation

Also on Literary Hub: Saul Bellow’s 1976 Nobel Lecture · Ben Markovits on how Bellow can make anything (English muffins, testicles) interesting · Zachary Leader on the writer’s father, Abraham · A new poem by Evie Shockley