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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in July

By Emily Firetog | July 31, 2019

The Late-Capitalist Privileges of<br> Being an Art Monster

The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
Being an Art Monster

Sarah Elaine Smith on Working a Tech Job While Trying to Make Art

By Sarah Elaine Smith | July 31, 2019

Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

At the Unamuno Author Series Festival, Poets Reckon
with Looming Fascism

By Anna Hundert | July 31, 2019

A.E. Stallings: 'I'm Optimistic About Poetry, but That's Maybe the Only Thing'

A.E. Stallings: 'I'm Optimistic About Poetry, but That's Maybe the Only Thing'

The Author of Like in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | July 30, 2019

On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

Liz Astroff Wrestles to Balance Parenting and Writing

By Liz Astrof | July 30, 2019

Tony Hoagland Was a Poet <br>of Heart and Humor

Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
of Heart and Humor

Mike Schneider Remembers His Friend's Idiomatic Writing

By Mike Schneider | July 29, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • On Morrison
  • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
  • So Old, So Young
  • Rebel English Academy
  • A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
  • Evil Genius

8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

By Craig Davidson | July 29, 2019

Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

By Stephanie Jimenez | July 29, 2019

On the Evolution of Fatness
in Society

By Christopher E. Forth | July 29, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing

From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing

Gerry Howard and Peter Kaldheim on a Friendship Borne of Books

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2019

Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

An Appraisal (and Update) of Lit Hub's Climate Library

By Kim-Marie Walker | July 26, 2019

Why Don't I Read All My Books?

Why Don't I Read All My Books?

Karen Olsson on the Ghosts on Her Shelves

By Karen Olsson | July 26, 2019

Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

What Shakespeare's "Thing of Darkness" Tells Us About Gatekeeping and Language

By Marcos Gonsalez | July 26, 2019

Got Writer's Block? <br>Read This Poem

Got Writer's Block?
Read This Poem

Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 25, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

How Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar Led to a Revolution

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

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