LitHub Daily: September 22, 2016

• Birding while black: J. Drew Lanham on race, belonging, and a love of nature. | Literary Hub
• Colette Shade on The House of Mirth, Thomas Piketty, and the literature of income inequality. | Literary Hub
• The history (and present) of banning books in America: the ongoing fight against the censorship of ideas. | Literary Hub
• How one woman photographed every library in New York. | Literary Hub
• Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Sarah Stillman, and Gene Luen Yang are among this year’s recipients of the MacArthur Foundation’s‘Genius’ Grants. | MacArthur Foundation
• Are we talking chaos or democracy? Hua Hsu on Greg Tate, the critic who inspired him to pursue criticism. | The New Yorker
• Speaking with Eimear McBride about A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing and The Lesser Bohemians, “two sides of the same coin.” | Broadly
• “In a lot of ways, I was writing in the direction of my fears.” A profile of Brit Bennett. | Vogue
• The longlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction have been announced. | American Library Association
• Imagining the friendship of Anaïs Nin and Flannery O’Connor, both “sensualists” and “bad bitches.” | The Hairpin
• Adam Fitzgerald on 1990s TV, the grief/desire cycle, and the sinister banality of the suburbs. | Bookforum
• On Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry, which “chose the harder path of empathy.” | The Millions
• “Confess, tangle,/pass through.” A poem by Kaveh Akbar. | ZYZZYVA
• Tonight, Michele Filgate will discuss writing the body with Eileen Myles, Ruth Ozeki, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, and Alexandra Kleeman at the second Red Ink event. | Facebook

Also on Literary Hub: The case for white curiosity: interrogating the devastating legacy of white supremacy in America · Getting paid for poetry in the digital age · A killer on the loose: from Mike Roberts’s Cannibals in Love