Lit List: February 1, 2017

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

George Herriman

• In Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person, World War II refugees are relocated to the American South Lapham's Quarterly 
• Safia Elhillo's January Children blends traditional and modern poetry in her novel about a generation of Sudanese children born between two eras The Jeli
• George Herriman, author of Krazy Kat, dropped hints throughout his work of the secret that would have cost him his career The New York Review of Books 
• Read poems from the seven countries whose citizens are banned from the US PBS
• "Reaping Something New": the rich web of influences of 19th-century African-American literature The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• What teaching poetry to children can show you about being an adult on the Internet Poetry Foundation
• The coming of age novel as historical document, by poet Ruby Brunton The New Inquiry 
• Was Dr. Seuss, for all his flaws, "America's first anti-fascist children's writer?" The Atlantic