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    Lit Century

    Can We Stop Underrating
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    By Lit Century   January 5, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Lit Disco’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

    By Literary Disco  January 5, 2021
    On Craft

    How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

    By Randon Billings Noble  January 4, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We’re Brave Enough to Look

    By Jerrine Tan  January 4, 2021
    First Draft

    Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

    By History of Literature  January 4, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Daniel Halpern on 50 Years of Ecco Press

    By The Literary Life  January 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Claire Messud and Brendan O’Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of ‘Fake News’

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 31, 2020
    Best of the Year

    Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘If Words Are Not Enough Anymore, the Violence Enters’

    By How to Proceed   December 30, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    The Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 29, 2020
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Refugees

    The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

    By John Domini  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Smith on Finding Hope on Twitter

    By The Maris Review  December 28, 2020
    The History of Literature

    How Chekhov Cuts to the Heart in Uncle Vanya

    By History of Literature  December 28, 2020
    First Draft

    Kwame Alexander on Learning, from a Young Age, to ‘Use His Words’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 28, 2020
    Literary Disco

    On the Weird Little Essays That Inspired A Christmas Story

    By Literary Disco  December 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    Best of the Year

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2020
    Literary History

    How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

    By Sarah Lonsdale  December 23, 2020
    Bookable

    Rumaan Alam on Writing a Book That Doesn’t Explain Itself

    By Bookable   December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
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