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19 Books You Should Read This April

19 Books You Should Read This April

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2019

The Unused Alternative Covers Behind <br>5 Modern Literary Classics

The Unused Alternative Covers Behind
5 Modern Literary Classics

How the Foreign Editions of George Saunders, J.P. Donleavy, and More Came to Life

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2019

Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

Read from Marcuse's Graphic Biography by Nick Thorkelson, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite <br>Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite
Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in March

By Literary Hub | March 29, 2019

Memory, Identity, and Connection at the Festival Neue Literatur

Memory, Identity, and Connection at the Festival Neue Literatur

The Best of Contemporary German Writing in New York

By Literary Hub | March 29, 2019

Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

D.A. Powell, Maxine Hong Kingston, and More, on a Living Legend

By Literary Hub | March 22, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Meet the Winners of the National Magazine Award for Fiction

By Literary Hub | March 22, 2019

Announcing the 2019 Whiting Award Winners

By Literary Hub | March 20, 2019

James Baldwin: 'I Never Intended to Become an Essayist'

By Literary Hub | March 20, 2019

Ada Limón: “I Have Never Done Anything Alone”

Ada Limón: “I Have Never Done Anything Alone”

From Her Acceptance Speech For the NBCC Poetry Awards

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Writing Novels, Reporting on Murders, Curating Folk Concerts... She Could Do It All

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

Lit Hub Recommends: <em>Underland</em>, Rachel Ingalls, <em>The Magicians</em>, and More

Lit Hub Recommends: Underland, Rachel Ingalls, The Magicians, and More

Also, Lisa Kudrow from 1997.

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

John Lanchester and Joe O'Neill Talk Climate Change and Border Walls

John Lanchester and Joe O'Neill Talk Climate Change and Border Walls

"The time to act is now..."

By Literary Hub | March 14, 2019

31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner

31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner

Counting Down the 2018 NBCC Prize Nominees

By Literary Hub | March 13, 2019

31 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on Tara Westover

31 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on Tara Westover

Counting Down the 2018 NBCC Prize Nominees

By Literary Hub | March 12, 2019

Saunders, McCracken, and More: Advice from Masters of the Short Story

Saunders, McCracken, and More: Advice from Masters of the Short Story

Former Winners of the Story Prize Offer Some Thoughts on Writing

By Literary Hub | March 11, 2019

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