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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness

By Chronicle Books | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

From Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Dorothy Allison, Aria Aber, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and More

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 11, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

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On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

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The year’s best literary podcasts.

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By Literary Hub | December 9, 2025

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture

By Scott Saul | December 9, 2025

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

The Backstory and Creative Process Behind A Long Winter

By Colm Tóibín | December 9, 2025

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

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

Featuring Elizabeth McCracken, Nadia Davids, Tarpley Hitt and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 9, 2025

The Far Side of Disaster: <br>On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”

By Colin Dickey | December 9, 2025

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