LitHub Daily: June 29, 2015

TODAY: In 1613, the Globe Theater burns down (out, out brief theater!). 

• Naomi Jackson on her quest to make a Caribbean artist’s painting the cover of her debut novel. | Literary Hub
• A misremembrance of words past: on the forgetful nature of reading. | NYRB
• Literary diaries, no longer singularly the realm of sad teens, are forcing readers to confront the nature of being and time. | The New Republic
• “Even if you haven’t read either of her novels… you’ve still heard of Nell Zink,” this article attests (and we ensure). | Bookanista
• Buying giant boots, sporting a mane of long hair, and becoming a Cuban sci-fi legend: a profile of Yoss. | The New York Times
• No things but in ideas: the crisis in non-fiction publishing. | The Guardian
• What is the importance of the book, what is the importance of dogs, and other questions of importance: Chris Knaus interviews Mark von Schlegell. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Daniel Clowes coming up with robotic answers that sound like plausible answers. | Omnivoracious
• Ta-Nehisi Coates’s publishers have graciously decided that we should not have to wait another three months to read Between the World and Me. | Melville House

Also on Literary Hub: Talking to The Strand Bookstore and 86 years of selling books in pictures · The opening chapter of The Mahé Circle, one of Georges Simenon’s 391 titles

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