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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There is not a banal sentence or purple patch to be found in this book, which only a poet could have written.”

By Book Marks | January 11, 2024

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

Katie Peterson Recommends Work by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and More

By Katie Peterson | January 11, 2024

Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing

Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing

İnci Atrek on Channeling the Intense Emotions of Travel Into Fiction

By İnci Atrek | January 11, 2024

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 11, 2024

The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

Maria Hummel Recommends Karen Tei Yamashita, Cristina García, Bohumil Hrabal, and More

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Bécquer Seguín Considers the Emergence of a New Type of Literature in Post-Franco Spain

By Bécquer Seguín | January 10, 2024

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On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

By Kayla Min Andrews | January 10, 2024

Michelle Williams on Making Things that Feel Definite

By Talk Easy | January 10, 2024

Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

By History of Literature | January 10, 2024

A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

The Author of “You Only Call When You're in Trouble” on Growing Up in a Non-Reading Family, Publishing Deadlines, and More

By Stephen McCauley | January 9, 2024

Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

How Elizabeth Flock Immerses Herself in the Lives of Her Subjects

By Elizabeth Flock | January 9, 2024

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

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

Featuring Hisham Matar, Aube Rey Lescure, Nathaniel Stein and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 9, 2024

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Cold Victory”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 9, 2024

22 new books out today!

22 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 9, 2024

Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

Marie Doezema Explores the Icy Wilderness of New Parenthood in a Pandemic

By Marie Doezema | January 8, 2024

All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

Christiana Spens Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward, and More

By Christiana Spens | January 8, 2024

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