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Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

“I sometimes pulled back on reality. But, on the page, I gave close to everything.”

March 21, 2023

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Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Alissa Quart on the Bootstrap Narratives of Laura Ingalls Wilder

March 20, 2023

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Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?

Ellie Broughton on the Sex Education Star’s Replanting of a Secret Garden

March 16, 2023

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On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

Bryony Lau Considers the Reinvention of the First Job Memoir

March 15, 2023

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Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

DK Nnuro on the Power of Mimicry and Subversion in the Black Literary Tradition

March 15, 2023

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30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

NBCC Board Members Review This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists

March 14, 2023

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Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

Literary Executor Theo Downes-Le Guin on What That Means For Readers, Past and Future

March 13, 2023

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9 Must-Reads for Lovers (and Haters) of The Last of Us

From the Science of Fungi to the Collapse of Civilization, a Book For Everyone!

March 10, 2023

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If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

Jenny Jackson, Editor-Turned-Debut-Author, Fears So

March 8, 2023

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72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023

Hot Tips From Local Writers

March 7, 2023

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The Real Star of North by Northwest is Cary Grant’s Suit

It's More Than a Suit. It's the Star of the Movie. And a Perfectly Indestructible Cultural Force.

March 7, 2023

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On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

“I cannot manage the cursed Oat Cake” and Other Gems About Nothing

March 6, 2023

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in March

From Carrie to Lucky Hank

March 3, 2023

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The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

A Century After Ernest Shackleton’s Death, The Endurance Reveals Itself

March 3, 2023

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BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Leigh Stein Wonders Why More Book People Don’t Embrace the Publishing Juggernaut

February 13, 2023

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Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

”What these bills make clear is that the fights over the 1619 Project, at their essence, are about power.“

February 10, 2023

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

218 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 12, 2023

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