LitHub Daily: June 10, 2016

• Stephanie Danler on talismans, the end of love, and losing something precious. | Literary Hub
• Will anyone read Chuck Klosterman in 100 years? | Literary Hub
• Whitney Terrell on 9/11, panic attacks, and the long road to his new novel. | Literary Hub
• Evoking illness in fiction and nonfiction: Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Harding and David Oshinsky in conversation. | Literary Hub
• “Why muck around with interiority? Why must a mass-market paperback aspire to the thickness of a foam travel pillow? Why not test the demand for low-commitment narratives priced at five dollars a hit?” On James Patterson and his new project, BookShots. | The New Yorker
• We get to watch universal emotions manifest with extreme outward ferocity: On the dark depiction of female friendship vs. male “buddy comedies” in literature. | Elle
• On “Hemingway’s rise from a promising young proto-hipster sweating out sentences in a Paris garret to one of the 20th century’s most influential prose stylists.” | The Millions
• I, too, dislike it: On Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry and the always-thwarted dream of poetry. | Flavorwire
• “Bellowing as Elizabeth I in this high-pitched, squeaky, made-up dachshund voice was just something that amused me to no end.” An interview with Steven Rowley. | Electric Literature
• Umberto Eco, Angela Carter, and other picaresque novelists for the modern reader. | Lit Reactor
• I know what kind of suit suits you: David Biespiel on being dressed by his grandfather. | The Rumpus
• A film about Rumi is in the works, which somehow aims to challenge stereotypical portrayals of Muslim characters by casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the Persian poet and philosopher. | Vulture

Also on Literary Hub: Why Queens needs more bookstores · Why are so many poets also artists? · Out here in the Milky Way: From Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated by David Frye.