LitHub Daily: November 15, 2016

TODAY: In 1930, J.G. Ballard is born. 

• Rebecca Solnit on how to survive a disaster: cooperate, improvise, start local, fight. | Literary Hub
• On writing darkness and violence in the lives of teenagers: Robin Wasserman and Nicholas Mainieri in conversation. | Literary Hub
• Harry Potter is actually a great narrative framework for good and evil and authoritarianism (so ease up on the youth, already). | Literary Hub
• Why Americans need to pay for real journalism: an accidental parable from Paulette Jiles. | Literary Hub
• Marina Budhos on Muslim stereotyping and just how far the surveillance state can go. | Literary Hub
• David Oshinsky: Is New York City prepared for the hurricanes to come? | Literary Hub
• “We need to bear witness to what we have lost: our safety, our sense of belonging, our vision of our country.” Junot Díaz, Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, and other writers on Trump’s America. | The New Yorker
• Sheila Heiti and Elena Ferrante discuss being writers who forget, refinement vs. naturalness, and narcissism as a cognitive tool. | Hazlitt
• On the new public intellectuals and “intellectual renaissance” catalyzed by a “spate of little magazines that have appeared in the past decade or so.” | Chronicle for Higher Education
• “Poems — my own and others — have been, for me, a gesture fixed in time. The object exists, reliably, even as the meaning I attribute to it changes as I change.” Nikky Finney and Donika Kelly in conversation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Lydia Davis answers 20 questions on reading and writing and their past and future. | The Times Literary Supplement
• Hold your neighbor to the standard of your loved ones: From Wendy Xu’s Notes for an Opening. | The Lifted Brow

Also on Literary Hub: Three unpublished poems by Johnny Cash · Five books making news this week · From Roger Lewinter‘s The Attraction of Things 

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