LitHub Daily: March 28, 2016

• Remembering the great Jim Harrison, who died on Saturday at age 78, through some of his final poems. | Literary Hub
• Once upon a time in Berlin: Rob Spillman and Darryl Pinckney talk ex-pats, fiction, and late-century bohemia. | Literary Hub
• How a non-fiction writer finds his next subject: Erik Larson on escaping the “dark country of no ideas.” | Literary Hub
• Katie Roiphe recounts the last days of Susan Sontag. | Literary Hub
• Combining the demonic and the human: A profile of Edna O’Brien, the “grande dame of Irish literature.” | The New York Times
• Zinzi Clemmons remembers her cousin Malik Taylor, aka Phife Dawg, a rapper who “chose to speak to the entirety of his experience.” | The Paris Review
• Kaitlyn Greenidge on the implications of “objectivity,” the impossible choices of poverty, and her mother’s garden. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Daniel José Older, Ashley Cassandra Ford, and Tanwi Nandini Islam discuss the hollow term “diversity,” the importance of honest books, and the need for revolution. | Elle
• On Britta Böhler’s “biographical connect-the-dots” focusing on Thomas Mann’s political and moral contemplation. | Los Angles Review of Books
• A new documentary will tell the story of Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset through a mural on his wall. | Guernica
• The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has announced its 2016 fellows. | AAWW
• Irregardless, nother, like, and other 21st-century, horrible words. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Bank Square Books, founded by the “Three Witches” · How I met the poet of Portsmouth · The 33 ⅓ series: Kembrew McLeod on Blondie’s “Parallel Lines”