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The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

By Renato Miracco | May 21, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Nancy Wayson Dinan on Literature of the Before and After

By Nancy Wayson Dinan | May 20, 2020

Curtis Sittenfeld on Folk Music, Gossip, and Politics

Curtis Sittenfeld on Folk Music, Gossip, and Politics

The Author of Rodham Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Curtis Sittenfeld | May 20, 2020

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

The Founder of Taco Bell Quarterly Tells All

By MM Carrigan | May 19, 2020

Defiant and Unsinkable: <br>The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Defiant and Unsinkable:
The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Olivia Gatwood on the Poet's Strength and Progressivism

By Olivia Gatwood | May 19, 2020

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The Creative Communities That Changed Literature Forever

By Maggie Doherty | May 19, 2020

Steven Weber on Finding a Career in Audiobooks

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2020

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

Doesn't Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books All the Time?

Doesn't Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books All the Time?

Natalie Jenner on Perpetually Returning to
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By Natalie Jenner | May 18, 2020

Dola de Jong's Novel of Resistance in Love and War

Dola de Jong's Novel of Resistance in Love and War

Kristen Gehrman on a Controversial Postwar Romance

By Kristen Gehrman | May 18, 2020

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

Alex George on the Satisfying Spectacle of Torching It All

By Alex George | May 15, 2020

Tommye Blount: No One Gets Off the Hook in My Poems

Tommye Blount: No One Gets Off the Hook in My Poems

The Author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue Talks to Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | May 14, 2020

On the Dreams of Latinx Women in a Pandemic Year

On the Dreams of Latinx Women in a Pandemic Year

Felicia Zamora Finds a Little Magic in a Dark Time

By Felicia Zamora | May 14, 2020

What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

Despite Calling Himself a Feminist the Author of the Foundation Stories Was a Serial Harasser

By Jay Gabler | May 14, 2020

How to Read Surreally in a Surreal Time

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Maria Reva on Books By Samanta Schweblin, Selja Ahava, and More

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