How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel

How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel

“We need your voice.” 

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Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal?

Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal?

From Hinge to Feeld You Can Enjoy Short Fiction With Your FWB

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Am I the Asshole For Abandoning My First Love, Fantasy?

Am I the Asshole For Abandoning My First Love, Fantasy?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

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Russian Literature Does Not Belong to the Russian State

Russian Literature Does Not Belong to the Russian State

Katie Kelaidis on the Winners of This Year’s Dar Prize

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Surrendering to Subjectivity: In Praise of Maggie Nelson’s <em>The Argonauts</em>

Surrendering to Subjectivity: In Praise of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

Arved Ashby on Rejecting Narrative Avoidance and Finding Inspiration in the First Person

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The truth about Life of M is that the book isn’t really about Natalie Portman at all.”

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Ed Park is Reading Now, and Next

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Dino Martins on Cyclospora, Screwworms, and Our Lives with Parasites

Dino Martins on Cyclospora, Screwworms, and Our Lives with Parasites

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

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What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags?

What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags?

Chill Subs’ Benjamin Davis and David Mahaffey Break Down an Experiment with “The Georgia Review”

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Kei Miller on Yuval Noah Harari’s <em>Sapiens</em>

Kei Miller on Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

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Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today!

Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today!

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The Nearly Departed: Inside the Art of Writing a Great Obituary

The Nearly Departed: Inside the Art of Writing a Great Obituary

Sam Roberts Offers His Perspective on Writing About the Almost-Dead

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Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West

Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Sunrise”

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

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

Featuring Naima Coster, Katy Simpson Smith, Stacey Yu and More

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