LitHub Daily: June 5, 2015

• Read fiction from Molly Antopol, Cynthia Bond, Phil Klay, Merrit Tierce, and Jack Livings—your PEN/Bingham Award shortlist. | Literary Hub

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• Knausgaard, emo teen/Norse god, tells a confounded Charlie Rose that self-loathing “is a big part of [his] life,” among other things. | Flavorwire
• “If you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you’re a man, you’re actually doing some post-modern play on the novel.” Jeanette Winterson and Helen Macdonald on memoir. | The Guardian
• David and Goliath, if David were a coder instead of a little boy with a slingshot: an app that allows you to browse on Amazon but buy from independent bookstores. | Bookindy
• Angela Flournoy on ghosts, the personality of politics, and watching roulette. | The Paris Review
• There are Buddhist texts that predate even Jack Kerouac and come from lands further still than distant American peaks. | Public Books
• “Carroll did not, of course, invent the rabbit hole; that distinction belongs to rabbits.” With all due credit given, we can fully endorse this article about the term “rabbit hole.” | The New Yorker
• “The artist shapes a chaotic impulse into order, whereas the person who rambles does not.” An interview with Edward Mullany. | Electric Literature
• Love, Life, Death, and God: on Steven King’s postmodern masterpiece, Roadwork. | Gawker Review of Books

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