LitHub Daily: May 22, 2015

• On the fine art of not destroying your career while on your debut book tour. | Literary Hub
• “Being Brown, Male, and Western had locked me into a set of expectations and codes that I would rumble against.” Navigating Brown identity in the Western world. | Hazlitt
• “Meditating on myself makes one thing evident: the rest of the world is in rhyme.” An excerpt from Werner Herzog’s Of Walking in Ice. | Vulture
• On the friendships and fundamental limitations of men: an interview with Hanya Yanagihara. | Electric Literature
• We, not Philip Roth, are the egotists in his non-retirement; it is clearly all about us. | The Baffler
• If you’re very invested ($3.8 million) in showing that you really loved 12th grade AP Literature, you can now buy the house in which F. Scott Fiztgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. | CBC News
• Matriarchal figures, sexual appetites, and rejecting literary canons: an interview with Anne Enright, Ireland’s inaugural fiction laureate. | The Millions
• Disappointing and being disappointed by families, both chosen and predetermined: Trisha Low on conflicting loves, legacies, and aesthetic affiliations. | Open Space
• On the “real kernel” beneath a story featuring a man made of paper, dead mermaids, and a crumbling anarchic city: Laura van den Berg interviews Gallagher Lawson. | LA Times

Also on Literary Hub: Molly Young on Michael Friedman, master of cliché · A literary long weekend in Portland, Maine · Inside the mad disorder of The Winchester House