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Emily Temple

Emily Temple
Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
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Announcing the Third Annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Awarded to an Outstanding Book Collection Built by a Young Woman
February 21, 2019  By Emily Temple
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Important: 50 Literary Cameos in 90s Movies

Or, An Elaborate Excuse to Revisit 10 Things I Hate About You
February 19, 2019  By Emily Temple
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11 Literary Pick Up Lines for the Chronically Dateless

Get Yourself a Valentine Who Reads
February 13, 2019  By Emily Temple
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10 Specialty Bookstores That Are Definitely Worth a Visit

Particularly If You Like Magic or the Ocean or Romance (And Who Doesn't)
February 12, 2019  By Emily Temple
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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

"This isn't Harry Potter, you know?"
February 8, 2019  By Emily Temple
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10 Contemporary “Dickensian” Novels

Because "Kafkaesque" is Like, So 2018
February 7, 2019  By Emily Temple
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10 Works of Literary Fantasy You Should Read

Even If You're a Genre Snob (But Also, If You're a Genre Snob, Stop)
February 5, 2019  By Emily Temple
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On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter”

Or, How to Accept the Pain of Not Knowing
February 4, 2019  By Emily Temple
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The Art (or Non-Art) of the Cinematic Dictionary Open

The Definitions that Begin 13 Films and TV Shows
February 1, 2019  By Emily Temple
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The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Short Month, Long Books
January 31, 2019  By Emily Temple
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The 15 Best Book Covers of January

2019's First Crop of Shiny New Books
January 28, 2019  By Emily Temple
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What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"
January 25, 2019  By Emily Temple
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5 Literary Classics That Have Yet to Be Adapted, and How We’d Cast Them

Opinions Contained in This Article Are 100 Percent Correct
January 24, 2019  By Emily Temple
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A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

As Determined by the Most Prestigious Literary Prizes in the Country
January 23, 2019  By Emily Temple
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A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

Quoth the Raven, Many, Many Times . . .
January 18, 2019  By Emily Temple
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Some Hilarious Illustrations from America’s First Bestselling Diet Book

Lulu Hunt Peters Invented Calorie Counting and Let her Nephew Draw the Pictures
January 15, 2019  By Emily Temple
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What’s Needed is Magic: Writing Advice from Haruki Murakami

Also: Talent, Focus, and Endurance
January 14, 2019  By Emily Temple
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An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy’s Complaint

Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder
January 11, 2019  By Emily Temple
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The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

New Year's Resolutions to Read More: No Sign is Immune
January 9, 2019  By Emily Temple
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Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

Three Collections Are in the Running for $20,000
January 9, 2019  By Emily Temple
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