LitHub Daily: June 8, 2015

TODAY: In 1889, Gerard Manley Hopkins dies. 

• Sam George Allen with the best version yet of the long-form “I worked in a strip club” essay.| Literary Hub
• “This respectable social novelist has suddenly become a fantasy novelist: look, there are ghosts and magic.” A conversation between Kazuo Ishiguro and Neil Gaiman. | The New Statesman
• Sam Lipsyte has better uses for time travel than buying a Brooklyn brownstone for the price of a bagel. | The New Yorker
• Viet Thanh Nguyen on confession, picking sides, and getting revenge on Hollywood. | The Rumpus
• Guided by Dante through the electric air of grief: Joseph Luzzi on his memoir about becoming a widower and father in the space of one morning. | NPR
• White men whining about being white men and writing poetry: a vision of Hell. | The Atlantic
• Literature and the Internet, everyone’s new favorite couple, have compiled a wedding registry. | The Guardian
• A cheese plate of trauma: on hoodies, hijabs, and American terror. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Lamenting the loss of literary bullies: in criticism, “the bloodbath has become a featherbed.” | Literary Review

Also on Literary Hub: An interview with Obama’s bookstore · On Joan Didion’s vision of Miami ·  A publisher’s story about publishing

 

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