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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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Why Famous Works of Literature Were Challenged in Court
November 22, 2017  By Emily Temple
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How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

You can't put Pynchon next to Plato (Unless They're Both Pink)
November 21, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

You must see this movie immediately
November 20, 2017  By Emily Temple
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David France Has Won the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

For How to Survive a Plague, a history of activists vs. the AIDS epidemic
November 16, 2017  By Emily Temple
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The 2017 National Book Award Winners Announced

In Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature
November 16, 2017  By Emily Temple
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30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women

Our Future Bodies, Our Future Selves
November 16, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: “You Have to Be Obsessed”

And other insights on craft from the legendary critic and novelist
November 15, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Simon Schama

The author of Belonging on loving Tolstoy and being brave
November 15, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn

The author of An Odyssey on narrative structure and the beauty of nonfiction
November 14, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

The Author of How to Survive a Plague on the remarkable legacies of AIDS activists
November 14, 2017  By Emily Temple
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This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak
November 13, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

The author of Border on art as social change
November 13, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

The author of To Be A Machine on learning to write like himself
November 13, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."
November 9, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises
November 9, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

The author of Her Body and Other Parties tells us about her favorite stories
November 9, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Write What You Know’ is the Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard

And Other Hot Tips from the Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate
November 8, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee

The author of Pachinko on the long road to her latest novel
November 8, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Lisa Ko

The author of The Leavers on being perennially timely
November 8, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Danez Smith

The author of Don't Call Us Dead on editing, performance, and instinct
November 7, 2017  By Emily Temple
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