LitHub Daily: November 2, 2016

• Rebecca Solnit: “Dear Donald Trump, you should visit the city of New York someday.” | Literary Hub
• Sarah Domet on the very American search for place in fiction. | Literary Hub
• On PostSecret, the false promises of secrets revealed, and the importance of actually telling your story. | Literary Hub
• Jung Young Moon: The novelist who gave up on the world.  | Literary Hub
• On creating comic books for the blind: “It must be a heroic story, an empowering story.” | Literary Hub
• Surely there are inaccessible places in each of us: An excerpt from Kelly Luce’s novel Pull Me Under. | Joyland
• “For me, essays like this aren’t just ‘about’ the subject matter — the form is the content.” An interview with Elissa Washuta. | Electric Literature
• “How quickly the animal/empties.” A poem by Ocean Vuong. | The New Yorker
• How the story of Jack the Ripper went from mystery to brand to an industry in and of itself. | The Awl
• “Everything a writer writes is inevitably influenced by everything they read, and it would be strange to think that the novels I translated… don’t influence my own writing in some undefinable way.” An interview with Ken Liu. | Chicago Review of Books
• The most ancient ghosts in Crimea: An excerpt from Sophie Pinkham’s new book Black Square. | n+1
• “Revisiting a story gives us an opportunity to explore universal experiences from the perspective of those who weren’t represented in the original:” On the importance of queer retellings of classic stories. | VICE
• The university is trying to figure out its place and its identity in the 21st century: The culmination of The Point’s conversation about academic freedom. | The Point

Also on Literary Hub: How Emmett Till is remembered, and the legacy of a murder · David James Poissant on the marvels of the short story · From Carol Birch’s Orphans of the Carnival