LitHub Daily: May 24, 2016

TODAY: In 1940, poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky is born. 

• Rufi Thorpe will steal the details of your life and put them into books (even cigarette brands, orgies, and your strong feelings About Boyz II Men). | Literary Hub
• Garth Greenwell and Garrard Conley continue their North Carolina book tour at Flyleaf Books. | Literary Hub
• Guy Gavriel Kay on five books in his life, including Proust who he swears to read soon. | Literary Hub
• Donald Trump has set fire to America: on Faulkner, white trash, and burning down barns. | Literary Hub
• Interview with a mad cartoonist: the time I met the great Colonel Baxter. | Literary Hub
• Over 450 writers have signed an open letter to the American people against Donald Trump. | Literary Hub
• “I can’t help but worry that those of us who hoped that the marriage of pop culture and feminism would yield deliciously progressive fruit might have a lot to answer for.” Andi Zeisler on the publication of her new book and 20 years of Bitch Magazine. | The New Yorker
• Sometimes telling a story is the thing that saves your life: Card-carrying misfit Lidia Yuknavitch delivers a TED Talk. | TED
• “When Knausgaard looks at a woman, he becomes a man. When Knausgaard looks at heaven, he becomes a person.” Gender, self-creation, and  “Norway’s hunkiest narcissist.” | The New Republic
• Sherman Alexie on running away, extending the borders of family, and the children’s book that made him into a writer. | NPR
• “I’m not afraid of textspeak, I’m not afraid of abbreviations. I think we just wind up doing more fun things with how language appears. Twerking! We’re twerking our language.” An interview with francine j. harris. | Divedapper
• This summer brings new Herman Melville intrigue: Was he in love with his neighbor’s wife or Nathaniel Hawthorne? | The Wall Street Journal
• Digital audiobooks are now a contender for the future of publishing, and other statistics about last year’s publishing industry sales. | Flavorwire
• “The meanings we assign to hoods have everything to do with what we regard as frightening and dangerous, and where we think that power resides.” Alison Kinney on Hood, her contribution to the Object Lessons series. | Public Books

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