LitHub Daily: May 11, 2016

• Garrard Conley survived ‘ex-gay’ therapy and it made him a better writer. | Literary Hub
• Louise Erdrich on five books in her life, from Ivan Turgenev to Ann Patchett. | Literary Hub
• Salman Rushdie talks to Paul Holdengraber about letter as fiction, fairy tales, and drinking with Gunter Grass. | Literary Hub
• Amanda Nadelberg offers advice on how to write a book of poems. | Literary Hub
• Mark Haddon on giving up on dreams of writing the big novel, being between the Bible and 50 Shades of Grey, and creating short stories in which everything happens. | Electric Literature
• “I’ve been researching this book ever since I was born. I didn’t go around with a notebook and pen. These stories, I’ve been hearing ever since I was a child.” An interview with Sunjeev Sahota. | The Wall Street Journal
• “I want a poetics of translation that is not just anti-assimilationist.” Against neutrality in translating. | World Literature Today
• “Márquez is the creator of a way of understanding the world that is worth appreciating from many angles.” An interview with Justin Webster, director of the new Gabriel García Márquez documentary, Gabo. | Signature Reads
• On writer and rapper Kate Tempest, who is influenced equally by William Blake and the Wu-Tang Clan. | The New Yorker
• “For the novel, the orphan is the skeleton key to narrative tension, reader empathy, and moral awakening.” On literature’s long-standing fascination with, and reliance on, orphan narratives. | Hazlitt
• You revolt me stewing in your consumption: On the long history of literary hate mail, from William Hazlitt to online commenters. | The New Republic
• Milkweed Editions has announced that it will open an indie bookstore, which will “open up the publishing process for [their] community.” | Publishers Weekly

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