LitHub Daily: January 29, 2016

• “Mom, I’m taking opiates again.”  Amy Long on life with addiction. | Literary Hub
• Monologue and self-fictionalization: On the identity and writing of J.M Coetzee. | The Nation
• Why chew your own cabbage twice? Elon Green on learning from Saul Bellow. | Hazlitt
• It’s not all doom and gloom: Matt Gallagher on Hemingway pronouncements, and survival mechanisms, writing as an artist/veteran. | BOMB Magazine
• Men create books, but books create men: On South Korea’s quest for the Nobel Prize. | The New Yorker
• In the U.S., only 3% of books are works in translation, and 9 languages account for approximately 90% of the world’s translations: Help PEN remedy that. | Kickstarter
• Eka Kurniawan on the simplification of magical realism, being enigmatic, and finding the “pulse, flow, and architecture of story.” | Electric Literature
• Of whom shall I be afraid? A trip to The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. | The Point
• “It (I) was too desperate, too anxious, too not-yet-formed.” Lynn Steger Strong on becoming the person she wishes to assert. | Blunderbuss

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a Gatekeeper: Graywolf’s Jeff Shotts, on the front lines of diversity in publishing · Zinzi Clemmons asks where is our black avant garde? · The Mayor of Reykjavík’s teenage years: from Jón Gnarr’s The Pirate, translated by Lytton Smith.