LitHub Daily: October 2, 2015

TODAY: In 1902, Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published. 

• From Pliny the Elder to Twin Peaks, the poetics of everyone’s favorite “monster of the night,” owls. | Literary Hub
• Seattle: City of White Literature? Why Ryan Boudinot’s new anthology is a failure of representation. | The Seattle Review of Books

• On the underappreciated Marianne Fritz and our gendered understanding of “genius.” | The Paris Review
• Patti Smith’s M Train is “an eloquent… elegy for what she has ‘lost and cannot find’ but can remember in words.” | The New York Times
• Now you can live everyday like it’s Taco Tuesday. | NPR
• Adrian Tomine talks fatherhood, his new graphic novel, and the dearth of Asian-Americans mainstream culture. | Guernica
• “After my son was born, everyone told me to write it all down. Instead I went home and cancelled my credit cards.” A birth story from Mia You. | Poetry Foundation
• Cathy Park Hong explores contemporary poetry’s real revolutionary movement (hint: it’s not conceptualism). | The New Republic
• Frank Guan on cultural binaries, The Next Next Level, and artists as “symbolic criminals.” | Full Stop

Also on Literary Hub: David Ulin and Mark Haskell Smith walk around LA, the city they love and hate · Christos Tsiolkas: “I am proof that multiculturalism is worth defending” · Five things to see at the New Yorker Festival · Before Matt Damon there was Andy Weir: an excerpt from The Martian

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