LitHub Daily: November 2, 2015

• Shann Ray on growing up in Montana mountain country with the Cheyenne. | Literary Hub
• Stacy Schiff on Letters to Vera, Nabokov’s collected correspondence with “his skunky, his bird of paradise, his mothling, kitty-cat, roosterkin, mousie, tigercubkin.” | NYRB
• In The Familiar Vol. 2, much of Mark Z. Danielewski’s “LOOK AT ME BEING SO GODDAMN CLEVER literary showboating” has burned away. | NPR
• A single novel, written over the course of 45 years, over 20 times: Examining the work of the still underread Patrick Modiano. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• On the poetry of Jorie Graham “one of the very few living American poets to have advanced a worldly, Modernist model of the poem into the 21st century.” | The Nation
• From public intellectual to Big Brother contestant: On the lost relevance of Germaine Greer. | Cabinet Magazine
• On horror films and daily horrors: Examining race in America through the treatment of black characters and their deaths in slasher movies. | Catapult
• Selfish, but with codpieces: Looking at The First Book of Fashion, a hand-drawn book of selfies from the 1500s. | The Atlantic
• Chill (and prolific!) Pope Francis will publish another book. | Publishers Weekly

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