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    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Gatsby Adaptations, AI Evil, and Literary Assholes

    With Drew Broussard, Jessie Gaynor, Kristen Arnett, and Jonny Diamond

     
    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 22, 2024
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    “Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

    By Ryan Ruby  November 22, 2024
    In Conversation

    Diverting Diversions: Mark Haber on Distractions, Literary Digressions, and the Possibilities of Fiction

    By Brian Castleberry  November 22, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Balm of Life”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 22, 2024
    Billionaires

    Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

    By Maris Kreizman  November 21, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 21, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sergio de la Pava Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 21, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump’s Plans for Mass Deportation

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 21, 2024
    Children's Literature

    In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jannson’s Characters

    By Christiana Spens  November 20, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Haruki Murakami, Emmanuel Carrère, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, and More

    By Book Marks  November 22, 2024
    Religion

    Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

    By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
    Diaries

    How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

    By Carl Rollyson  November 19, 2024
    American Literature

    What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

    By Edwin Frank  November 19, 2024
    Illness

    Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

    Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

    By Traci Brimhall  November 19, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! Parks and Rec! 23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 19, 2024
    The Hub

    I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are… not great!

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2024
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Rosenfeld

    Maya Kessler

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 18, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  November 15, 2024
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Love Interbellum”

    Ine Boermans (trans. Sarah Timmer Harvey)

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 14, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 14, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
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