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Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Unique Pleasures of Reading in Public

A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

Chani Nicholas on Writing (and Astrology) as a Response to Trauma

Book Stalls and Back Rooms: Traveling the World in Search of Literary Serendipity

John Cribb on What Both Republicans and Democrats Can Learn From Abraham Lincoln

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On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

“Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

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