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On the Subversive Power of Gossip
Maria Tatar Considers the Deep Cultural Work of Chatter
By
Maria Tatar
| September 15, 2021
The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and
Middlemarch
“Middlemarch—both the novel and the fictional town for which it is named—is limited by the constraints of ordinary life.”
By
Rebecca Mead
| September 15, 2021
Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature
Vince Passaro Recommends Great Books About the Big Apple
By
Vince Passaro
| September 15, 2021
On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics
Andrea Abi-Karam on Writing To The Dead
By
Andrea Abi-Karam
| September 15, 2021
Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind
Cai Emmons on Her ALS Diagnosis and Writing as a Reflection of Health
By
Cai Emmons
| September 15, 2021
Sarah Gilmartin Reads from
Dinner Party: A Tragedy
From Damian Barr’s
Literary Salon
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Damian Barr's Literary Salon
| September 15, 2021
Best Reviewed
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15 new books to get from your local indie this week.
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Katie Yee
| September 14, 2021
Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York
By
Dwyer Murphy
| September 14, 2021
“Maybe More People Should Have Writer's Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter
By
Joy Williams
| September 14, 2021
Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories
Also, How to Know When You’re Writing a Book
By
Corinne Segal
| September 14, 2021
Is the Original
Pinocchio
Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?
John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna on the Italian Author Behind the Beloved (Pre-Disney) Children’s Tale
By
John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
| September 14, 2021
How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in
Native Son
George Makari on the Phobic World of Wright’s First Novel
By
George Makari
| September 14, 2021
Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential
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Podcast with JC Gabel
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Big Table
| September 14, 2021
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Ben Apatoff, Callie Garnett, Lee Matthew Goldberg, and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| September 14, 2021
Water, Water Everywhere: Readings on Life’s Essential Ingredient
From Gilgamesh to Climate Science, Giulio Boccaletti Recommends Stories of Water
By
Giulio Boccaletti
| September 14, 2021
Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s
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So Many Damn Books
| September 14, 2021
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