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Happy Endings to Brighten Up Dark January Days: A Reading List

Happy Endings to Brighten Up Dark January Days: A Reading List

Eva Carter Recommends Clare Pooley, Elizabeth Gilbert, and More

By Eva Carter | January 25, 2023

Some guy ranked all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of (and the other ones, too).

Some guy ranked all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of (and the other ones, too).

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19 new books to get at your local indie right now.

19 new books to get at your local indie right now.

By Katie Yee | January 24, 2023

For Aleksandar Hemon, Writing is a Search for a Form That Doesn’t Yet Exist

For Aleksandar Hemon, Writing is a Search for a Form That Doesn’t Yet Exist

The Author of The World and All That It Holds Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 24, 2023

In Defense of Whimsy, Nonsense, and Barbaric Balderdash in Children’s Books

In Defense of Whimsy, Nonsense, and Barbaric Balderdash in Children’s Books

Tim DeRoche on the Value of a Long-Neglected Genre of Kid Lit

By Tim DeRoche | January 24, 2023

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

Emily J. Orlando on the Writer’s Enduring Relevance and Foresight

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A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

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“Thinking about Mansfield’s work makes me understand again how literature is never just a story.”

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"Who Are Your People?" A Reading List of Strong, Spirited Southern Ladies

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A New Way of Being on the Page: A Reading List of Very Short Fictions

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Susan Griffin on Following the Sounds of Words

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