LitHub Daily: September 24, 2015

TODAY: In 1944, Irish poet Eavan Boland is born. 

• A possibly true ghost story from David Mitchell, once upon a time in Japan. | Literary Hub
• “We ate scrambled eggs in front of an ineffectual fan.” Eileen Myles in conversation with Ben Lerner. | Literary Hub
• The digital apocalypse bringing about the end of print, like Y2K and 2012 before it, has passed without event. | The New York Times
• T.S. Eliot’s relationship to the public and poetry of sexual desolation have inspired the musings of countless scholars, among them Monica Lewinsky and Barack Obama. | Poetry Foundation
• A memoir in essays by a Henry James-loving party girl: revisiting Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz. | The New Republic
• “This is what obsession looks like: I am Dante following my Virgil.” Deliriously decoding the poetry of Frank Stanford. | Oxford American
• The universe is not rational: on grit and grimness in Dashiell Hammett’s novels. | Longreads
• A list of books in which the narrators, who are definitely not millennials, realize the story isn’t all about them. | NYPL Biblio File
• In case you haven’t yet gotten your fill of cinematic Fitzgerald adaptations: Amazon has announced a fall pilot about the life of Zelda starring Christina Ricci. | Vulture
• “I am so sorry that you have come to this mind of mine.” Seven poems by Max Ritvo. | The Boston Review

Also on Literary Hub: What to read when you’re trapped in your home by a new baby · Ivan Vladislavić on life, farce, and the ignoble demise of Sherwood Anderson · A story by Ann Beattie, “The Fledgling”

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