Good evening readers. Here's your round-up of today's must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

The lifelong embarrassment of writing poetry Poetry Foundation
Why Shakespeare's Othello feels "truly, viscerally American" MTV
Confronting the ignoble side of bipartisan hero Atticus Finch The Paris Review
So you're getting published. This is definitely the least obnoxious possible way to announce it McSweeney's
How and why an immigrant family lost its culture Catapult
Black American artists' search for a utopia Hazlitt
"Inaugural Poem for [REDACTED]," by jay dodd Lithub
Wole Soyinka swore to tear up his green card, and he kept his word--here's why The Atlantic
Lemony Snicket, né Daniel Handler, talks TV adaptations and writing enigmas that are solvable, but not too solvable The Observer
Elif Batuman on Proust, Dostoevsky, and the "ridiculous age" that is adolescence The New Yorker

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