LitHub Daily: October 28, 2016

TODAY: In 1958, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Pictured here, a signed and typed manuscript of the play. 

• Toni Morrison talks about Kim, Kanye, and the time she met Jeff Bezos. | Literary Hub
• Writing infertility: Belle Boggs in conversation with Monica Youn. | Literary Hub
• Phil Klay on the citizen-veteran gap and modes of storytelling. | Literary Hub
• There are 1,462 possible plots for your book. | Literary Hub
• A new documentary highlights the ongoing relevance of Isaac Babel. | Literary Hub
• “Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.” An interview with Paul Beatty. | Guernica
• Good-morning I love you: On Elizabeth Bishop’s Harvard professorship, resistance to categorization, and last love affair. | The New Yorker
• Who are these girls? Why are there so many of them? Emily St. John Mandel offers a take on the titling trend, this time with graphs. | FiveThirtyEight
• “It is cruel to rig our system to create these extremes, and thus to cast fellow citizens into the two sewers that border the national road.” Mark Greif on the necessity of ending super-wealth as well as super-poverty. | Verso Books
• Buttons represent my frantumaglia: On specific phobias and Elena Ferrante’s forthcoming “jumble of fragments.” | Hazlitt
• From Toni Morrison to Max Porter, 11 novels with emotional ghosts (a truly aspirational brand). | Electric Literature
• Safe spaces, trigger warnings, free speech, and beyond: A discussion about academic freedom in America. | The Point
• They set up the 14+ exactly one year after Trump was elected to his third term: Etgar Keret imagines a dystopian future for America. | BuzzFeed Reader

Also on Literary Hub: From Ferry Radax’s 1970 film Three Days, now in book form · How I helped tell a soilder’s story · The first Döblin collection in English: “Five Incomprehensible Stories” by Alfred Döblin, trans. by Damion Searls

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