LitHub Daily: March 9, 2016

• When America turns on its hyphenated citizens: Michelle Hoover on early 20th-century anti-German hysteria. | Literary Hub
• When your life is in someone else’s hands: a reading list on dependency. | Literary Hub
• A Phone Call from Paul: Paul Holdengraber calls Adam Phillips to discuss Wilde, writing, and the joy of Lacan. | Literary Hub
• Miranda July, Jeanette Winterson, and Joy Ladin are among the finalists for the 28th annual Lambda Literary Awards—or “Lammys.” | Lambda Literary
• “Writing this book was like a love affair.” Kate Zambreno and Danielle Dutton in conversation. | BOMB
• A thing stubborn and precious: Daniel Maidman on China Miéville’s This Census-Taker. | Critical Flame
• Brad Bigelow, independent blogger, dedicates his nights and weekends to rescuing worthy books from obscurity. | The New Yorker
• The shirt that launched a thousand Colin Firth fantasies is coming to the Folger Shakespeare Library for their new exhibition “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity.” | The New York Times
• An interview with Gary Metras of Adastra Press, publishers of hand-crafted chapbooks since 1979. | Entropy
• “Do we inherit darkness, even at a few centuries’ remove?” Alex Mar on colonialism, ancestry, and Juan Ponce de Léon. | Oxford American
• In which it is revealed that Kafka would have made an excellent Shark Tank contestant: two excerpts from Reiner Stach’s Is That Kafka? 99 Finds. | The Paris Review

Also on Literary Hub: “Reader, I Married Him”: an interview with Tracy Chevalier on her new Jane Eyre-inspired anthology · Women of the World Poetry Slam comes to Brooklyn · A poem by Dorothea Lasky · 30 Books in 30 Days:  Karen Long on Elizabeth Alexander’s The Light of the World · Wants: From Bruce Wagner’s I Met Someone