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35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

Part One of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 6, 2022

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo

By Jen DeGregorio | June 6, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Why NoViolet Bulawayo Isn’t Staying in Her Lane

Why NoViolet Bulawayo Isn’t Staying in Her Lane

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 6, 2022

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton: Why We Love Short Stories

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton: Why We Love Short Stories

Introducing the Ursa Short Fiction Podcast

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Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

A Conversation Between Mark Alan Stamaty, David Hajdu, and John Carey

By Literary Hub | June 6, 2022

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Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

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The 17 Best Book Covers of May

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Amber Sparks on Myths, Flash Fiction, and Her Unromantic Writing Process

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In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | June 3, 2022

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

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Love, Loss, and Everything In Between: A Reading List

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Hester Fox on Facing the Ugly Truths of the Victorian Era

Hester Fox on Facing the Ugly Truths of the Victorian Era

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By New Books Network | June 3, 2022

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Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

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