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Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty<br> To Write?

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
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Disavowing the Rituals of the American Civil War

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On <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

Red Newsom Considers the Line Between Experience and Fiction

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What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

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Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

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By Melissa Mesku | February 3, 2020

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

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How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

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Jonathan Reiber Considers the State of the Union in the Most Important Election Year in Its History

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Did Tolkien Write <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

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Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

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Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Children of the Land

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What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

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