LitHub Daily: November 23, 2015

TODAY: In 1644, John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 

• A very entertaining interview with Jerry Stahl, an old new Dad. | Literary Hub
• The authors of the best books of the year (according to Publishers Weekly) present the other best books of the year (according to themselves). | Publishers Weekly
• National Book Award winners Adam Johnson and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss Tupac holograms and fusing poetry and journalism, respectively. | The New York Times
• Wherever you go for the rest of your life Paris stays with you: Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, copies of which are being left as tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks, has become a bestseller in France. | NPR
• A “smutty romp” with T.S. Eliot: On Eliot’s never before published “Improper Rhymes” and martial poems. | New Statesman
• “A rock band, from a certain point of view, is an ideal vehicle for poetry.” On Richard Hell’s Massive Pissed Love, a descendant of the Romantics. | Hyperallergic
• Words don’t need visas, but humans do: Molly Crabapple on translating Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and the loaded fiction of citizenship. | VICE
• More lost writing by a famous author (William Faulkner) has been discovered! And published!! | U.S. News & World Report
• To ease their frustration with novellas, the New Yorker is launching an online-only feature for them. | The New Yorker

Also on Literary Hub: When setting trumps character: writing about place · Inside Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the country, also serves Mensuration Brownies  · From Elizabeth Tallent’s new collection, Mendocino Fire, “Briar Switch“

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