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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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A Selection of Virginia Woolf’s Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp
October 12, 2017  By Emily Temple
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The 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winners in Literature

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, and Annie Baker: Now Official Geniuses
October 11, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"
October 11, 2017  By Emily Temple
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40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

Open if You Dare
October 6, 2017  By Emily Temple
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

Author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go
October 5, 2017  By Emily Temple
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10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

A Brief History of Bibliocide
October 4, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States
October 3, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Read William S. Burroughs’s Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?
October 2, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

"I think I don't believe very much in psychotherapy for creative people."
September 29, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in Playboy

From J.G. Ballard to Gabriel García Márquez to Bharati Mukherjee
September 29, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Literary Highlights from Everyone’s Favorite Wedding Column

Or: Old Gossip is Still Good Gossip
September 28, 2017  By Emily Temple
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10 Songs for J.G. Ballard’s Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Drowned World
September 27, 2017  By Emily Temple
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8 Notable Attempts to Hack the New York Times Bestseller List

Surprise: Republican Politicians Also Cheat at Book Sales
September 26, 2017  By Emily Temple
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20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

"Don't be 'a writer' but instead be writing."
September 25, 2017  By Emily Temple
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12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence

Happy Birthday to the King of Horror
September 21, 2017  By Emily Temple
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The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books

Or: Some Books That Mention a Lot of Other Books
September 20, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Announcing the BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist

£15,000 Will Go to the Winner
September 15, 2017  By Emily Temple
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

"When it's difficult, what keeps me going is the possibility of joy."
September 15, 2017  By Emily Temple
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7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

So Many Hats
September 14, 2017  By Emily Temple
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When Roald Dahl’s Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish

Bob Gottlieb: Not Having It
September 13, 2017  By Emily Temple
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