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    Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

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    Motherhood

    A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

    By L. Sasha Gora  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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    Inspiration

    “The White Whales of the Sky.” On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions Past and Present

    By Kate Folk  April 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Kate Folk on Writing a Contemporary Tribute to an American Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 8, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Zakiya Dalilah Harris on Satire and Sensitivity

    By The Critic and Her Publics   April 8, 2025
    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 2025
    Short Stories

    Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

    Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”

    By Sally Rooney  April 8, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Villains, Vampires, Spies: The Best Remixes of The Great Gatsby

    By Camille Aubray  April 7, 2025
    Imagination

    Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

    By Lynn Steger Strong  April 7, 2025
    In Memoriam

    A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 4, 2025
    Remembrances

    Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

    Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

    By Nancy Kricorian  April 4, 2025
    Aging

    Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

    By Douglas J. Penick  April 3, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 3, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 3, 2025
    American Literature

    American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

    Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

    By Ed Simon  April 2, 2025
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    Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

    By Anthony Giardina  April 2, 2025
    Short Stories

    Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

    By Rachel Kushner  April 1, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

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    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
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    By Brittany Allen  March 31, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

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    Children's Literature

    Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

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    Anniversaries

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