LitHub Daily: November 4, 2016

TODAY: In 1918, one week before the armistice was declared, British poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action during a British assault on the German-held Sambre Canal on the Western Front. 

• The novel my wife will never read: Eugene Mirabelli on writing through death. | Literary Hub
• “Come on America. Focus.” As the election looms, 22 famous writers weigh in on Donald Trump.  | Literary Hub
• Diaries of a bookseller in Frankfurt: “I might as well be on Pluto.” | Literary Hub
• In praise of Black women poets: Arisa White digs into the archives of the San Franciso State Poetry Center. | Literary Hub
• “I don’t know what else to do, so I write. It’s my way of seeing the world.” Discussing sex and observing birds with Jim Harrison. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Guernica has relaunched with fiction by Ha Jin, an interview with Alexandra Kleeman, and more. | Guernica
• What if two is actually the loneliest number? A short story by Sherman Alexie. | Tin House
• I feel that he will develop into a poet in paint: On the poetics of Cy Twombly. | Hyperallergic
• “Humor is useful for anyone trying to speak an uncomfortable truth.” On the deserved acclaim being given to comic works by writers of color. | VICE
• My intention was to invent a way of speaking: Megan McDowell interviews Gonzalo Torné, whose novel Divorce is in the Air she recently translated. | The Millions
• “One could not tell if this was amazing, or if this was something for crazy people.” On Arno Schmidt’s (torso-sized, 18 pound) Zettel’s Traum and John E. Woods’ translation of it. | The New Yorker
• Sometimes (often?) reality is more fantastic and wild than fiction: An interview with Vanessa Hua. | Asian American Writers’ Workshop

 Also on Literary Hub: Amber Tamblyn reads from Alice Hoffman’s Faithful · Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with Paul Holdengraber · Read from Sara Schaff’s Say Something Nice About Me

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