LitHub Daily: November 30, 2015

TODAY: In 1667, Jonathan Swift, chronicler of Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, and Houyhnhnms, is born. 

• The late Paul West remembers a Newfoundland that time forgot. | Literary Hub
• Junot Díaz, R.L. Stein, Angela Flournoy, and other authors share which books they are most #thankful for. | BuzzFeed Books
• Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James discuss sex and violence, the crisis generation, and Facebook rants. | The Guardian
• On the life, legacy, and mother of Marianne Moore, “a happy spinster, a famous poet and a grande dame.” | London Review of Books
• John Freeman interviews Ben Lerner, discovers how the wizardry of poetry rubbed off on him. | Electric Literature
• “How do I react to feeling in debt to someone’s love?” Matthew Salesses on the loaded concept of gratitude as an adoptee. | The Toast
• Pugnacious Paglia vs. Silent Sontag: Benjamin Moser on Susan Sontag’s infamously boring visit to Bennington. | Literary Bennington
• Self-portraits and semi-autobios: On the graphic novel memoirs of Meags Fitzgerald and Dean Haspiel. | Hyperallergic
• Spiritual visions, mistresses, and reading in the nude: On William Blake’s sexual and spiritual life. | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: On discovering your uncle is a character in a Kay Boyle novel · Next to the Iowa Writers Workshop, an interview with Prairie Lights Bookstore · Tim Flannery on the 2050 climate-crisis deadline from Atmosphere of Hope

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