LitHub Daily: June 18, 2015

• Jeff Oaks fell in love with Donny Osmond at the age of eight. Life didn’t get any simpler after that. | Literary Hub
• 50 under 1,000? Roxane Gay chooses the best flash fiction of the year. | Wigleaf
• Nell Zink resembling a teenage boy, getting attacked by a “Nazi chick,” winning more of our hearts every day. | The Guardian
• Hypertext and hand jobs: an annotated excerpt from Maya Lang’s riff on Ulysses. | The Rumpus
• We tell ourselves stories (about it not being filthy) in order to live (in New York City): on Taylor Swift, Eula Biss, Joan Didion, and ♥ing NYC . | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• “I mean, do you think you’re as talented as Faulkner and Hemingway?” On the sexism, slights, and cinematic dreams that accompany a first novel’s publication. | Medium
• The modernist classic Cré na Cille (The Dusty Dust) has been translated from Gaelic for the first time; topics addressed include death, mundanity, and bitchfests. | The Millions
• Is distraction a method of fleeing from the self, or is Candy Crush just so fun? | The New Yorker
• Melville House has sent copies of The Torture Report to all presidential candidates in hopes that they will “clarify [their] position[s] on the legality, morality, and efficacy of torture.” | Melville House

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