LitHub Daily: September 15, 2016

• Toward new versions of a traditional family: Belle Boggs on the next frontier of LGBTQ rights. | Literary Hub
• Etgar Keret on time travel, TV, and writing about his father: the author of The Seven Good Years talks to Paul Holdengraber. | Literary Hub
• Lauren Groff on which books unhealthily reset her brain and her drive to Netflix. | Literary Hub
• Me and JT LeRoy: on anonymity and queer art. | Literary Hub
• The National Book Awards longlist for fiction, which includes books by Garth Greenwell, Jacqueline Woodson, and Colson Whitehead, has been announced. | The New Yorker
• “I have been writing this story my whole life. Every single novel, this is the story that I write.” Belinda McKeon interviews Ann Patchett. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman discuss assembling fictional people, the gravity of physiology, and emotional logic. | Salon
• “To perform analyses like these on Nguyen’s poems… is to be left with frayed ends.” On the poetry of Hoa Nguyen. | Boston Review
• It’s a dream of enhanced reality, language as hypertext: Monica Youn on etymology and the importance of knowing words’ history. | Graywolf
• “I’ve always been smart in spite of my stupid choices and have been hyper-aware enough to know I could only make ridiculous decisions before I got older.” An interview with Chloe Caldwell. | [PANK]
• I beat them, the dead: An excerpt from Umami and interview with the author, Laia Jufresa. | Electric Literature
• “If you put the 1,973 publishing pitches that were successfully funded in 2015 together with the 994 successful comic and graphic novel projects, then last year’s tally of 2,967 literary projects puts the crowdfunding site up among publishing’s ‘Big Four.’” On Kickstarter’s literary successes. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Ten books featuring subversive women: a reading list for defying society’s expectations · On the origins of the gospel of Trump: getting to know Norman Vincent Peale · The sound of pigs at slaughter: from Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter.