LitHub Daily: September 30, 2015

TODAY: In 1928, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel is born in Romania. 

• How Donna Tartt, Lorrie Moore, and Richard Ford are the literary heirs of the great Nick Carraway. | Literary Hub
• The second part of Paul Holdengraber’s conversation with Neil Gaiman, in which bees, fatherhood, and magic are discussed. (From our new podcast, A Phone Call From Paul.) | Literary Hub
• The National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 have been announced; the anointed precociously talented include Angela Flournoy, Colin Barrett, and Tracy O’Neill. | BuzzFeed Books
• The 2015 MacArthur Foundation fellows were announced; Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner, and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among this year’s 24 geniuses. | The New York Times
• “I guess I’m just having a big-ass Fall.” Eileen Myles talks sexism, outer space, and what lies ahead. | Broadly
• Six writers look back at their first novels with affection–and/or slightly gritted teeth. | The Millions
• “See how much you love me when I’m not giving you what you want!” New fiction from Atticus Lish. | Granta
• In which Chekhov’s gun shoots a flag that says “Bang!”: The humor of the writer-doctor-playwright’s early work. | The New Statesman
• The revoking of privilege, the question of free space, and the toll of grief: an interview with Margo Jefferson. | The Gawker Review of Books
• On the necessity of re-reading and the genius of its remakes: Interviewing the editor of the 200th anniversary, annotated edition of Emma. | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: Marlon James tells you the five Jamaican novels you should read · On Korean-Japanese relations, national identity, and the Zainichi · From Robin Coste Lewis’s debut poetry collection · “Allegorical Lots” from Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth

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