LitHub Daily: May 16, 2016

TODAY: In 1929, poet Adrienne Rich is born. 

• How to write deep in the woods with a dog by your side: Lee Clay Johnson’s post-MFA paradise. | Literary Hub
• Am I a character in this Doris Lessing novel? The late Jenny Diski on the ethics of novelizing autobiography, from her memoir, In Gratitude. | Literary Hub
• Bridget Read on Jenny Diski’s body of work that ends without an ending. | Literary Hub
• “Most of us Americans are Emersons: artful sermonizers, pathological point-makers, turntablists spinning the hits with future mischief in mind.” On televangelicals, creation myths, and the American essay. | The New Yorker
• “When I tell people this, they look at me like I have drowned a kitten.” On the Proustian experience of reading In Search of Lost Time on a cell phone. | The Atlantic
• On the restoration of Emily Dickinson’s “poetic laboratory” (her home and gardens). | The New York Times
• The “crown jewel of Alt.Latino‘s Guest DJ series,” a song curation from and conversation with Junot Díaz, is now online. | NPR
• Of bookish dreams and murder: On the impact of theory in Crime and Punishment. | The New Criterion
• “If reproducing the bass hoarseness of Rosselli’s reading voice, and her accent at sea, felt like mimicry to me, echoing the rhythm, the melody of the recorded performance seemed suddenly indispensable in translation.” On reperforming the translated poetry of Amelia Rosselli. | Harriet
• From Bleak House to Game of Thrones, why we suspect, look down upon, and continue to be drawn into plots. | The Guardian
• In this house all the walls have my mouth: Katrina Dodson on A General Theory of Oblivion, José Eduardo Agualusa’s depiction of a woman who survived “for 28 years on what she could grow or catch on her rooftop.” | Public Books

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a Bookstore: a place for both kids and adults, Blue Willow Bookshop · How books are helping Austin’s homeless community · Club Night: from Paula Whyman’s You May See A Stranger

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