LitHub Daily: September 7, 2016

TODAY: In 1907, Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked room mystery The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le mystère de la chambre jaune) begins serialization in L’Illustration (Paris). 

• Remembering the poet Max Ritvo: Death is actually very funny: a last conversation with Ritvo and Justin Boening • “The End,” a poem by the late poet • Where Is Max Ritvo’s heaven? On the death of a young poet and the limits of imagination. | Literary Hub
• Tracy K. Smith on race, love, hate, and Lucille Clifton; part two of her conversation with Paul Holdengraber. | Literary Hub
• Peter Ho Davies: Hitler’s dog, and other problems of historical fiction. | Literary Hub
• I am no poet; I cannot forget: Harold Bloom on Alvin Feinman, a “poet of astonishing individuation.” | The Critical Flame
• “There is a feeling of inevitability in that line of station wagons, advancing like a column of tanks, and DeLillo’s words provide subversive ammunition against them.” On White Noise and college move-in day. | The New Yorker
• How does one tell the story of a revolution? On four books that track the fallout of popular uprisings in Egypt and Syria. | The Nation
• When boredom is a privilege: on The Girls, The Virgin Suicides, and other novels of suburban white girls who court self-destruction. | Hazlitt
• “These days real and false terror are both just clicks away. It’s worth thinking about what it means that the borders between them are getting harder to find.” Dana Spiotta interviews Michael Helm. | The Millions
• How do we explain the coexistence of death squads and brunch? An interview with Mauro Javier Cardenas. | Electric Literature
• “Teebs is me but 10 times sadder, 10 times happier, 10 times messier, hungrier, and more fucked up.” Tommy Pico on his debut book. | Nylon
• Why the man behind “Born to Run” is also “a born memoirist.” Dave Kamp profiles Bruce Springsteen ahead of his 500-page memoir. | Vanity Fair

Also on Literary Hub: How I spent my summer vacation: with Ferrante and Knausgaard · Interview with a gatekeeper: Nan Talese, from Random House’s first female literary editor to arbiter of her own imprint · What if I don’t get hard? From Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am

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