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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.”

By Book Marks | August 15, 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 15, 2024

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

The Author of “Rip Tide” on Surviving the Chaos of Publishing

By Colleen McKeegan | August 15, 2024

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

Holly Baxter on the Virtues and Pitfalls of Journalism in the 21st Century

By Holly Baxter | August 15, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Jim Carrol, Mary Roach, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 15, 2024

A Literary Road Trip Across America

A Literary Road Trip Across America

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By Literary Hub | August 14, 2024

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  • Exit Party
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  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
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  • The Rouse

“A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

By Snowden Wright | August 14, 2024

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

By Sofia Samatar | August 14, 2024

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 14, 2024

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

Camille Peri on the Creative and Romantic Partnership of a 19th-Century Literary Power Couple

By Camille Peri | August 13, 2024

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

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

Featuring Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and More

By Teddy Wayne | August 13, 2024

Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | August 13, 2024

Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Sarah Seltzer on Crafting Round Characters, Austen’s Literary Bad Behavior, and Being a Janeite

By Sarah Seltzer | August 12, 2024

Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

In Conversation with the Author of “Transgenesis”

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2024

Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 12, 2024

Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write

Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | August 12, 2024

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