LitHub Daily: March 7, 2016

• “Books I wish I’d read as an LGBTQ teenager.” Queer writers on what they’d recommend to their past selves. | Literary Hub
• Matthew Desmond on why we can’t fix poverty without fixing housing. | Literary Hub
• “In Mexico City, you just feel the art boiling.” An interview with Álvaro Enrigue and Valeria Luiselli. | Vogue
• We once had a loftier view of ourselves: Marilynne Robinson on individuality, imagination, and American public universities. | Harper’s
• “Murder is something humans do to other humans. To pretend otherwise is to relieve ourselves of the need to think.” Catherine Lacey interviews Jonathan Lee. | The Paris Review
• Morgan Jerkins on secrecy as a form of power, black women’s diaries, and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. | The New Yorker
• “My greatest concern is always on a sentence level.” Porochista Khakpour on her first manuscript and forthcoming memoir. | Prairie Schooner
• Jarett Kobek interviews Mike Kleine, author and “really weird dude from HTMLGIANT.” | Entropy
• LeeAnne Walters and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, “two essential voices in exposing the lead poisoning of Flint’s water supply,” will receive PEN’s Freedom of Expression Courage Award. | PEN America
• Yet another article about creative writing MFAs, this time with math! | The Atlantic

Also on Literary Hub: Showcasing local authors: inside Bookmark It in Orlando Florida · Lies your ancestors told you: Anita Huslin on history, heritage, and whitewashing · From Alain Mabanckou’s The Lights of Pointe-Noire, trans. by Helen Stevenson