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We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others

By Jordan Landsman | May 16, 2024

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 16, 2024

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Kimberly King Parsons | May 15, 2024

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s <em>Freedom Song</em>

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

“True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.”

By Wendy Doniger | May 15, 2024

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The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

By The Cosmic Library | May 15, 2024

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 14, 2024

Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams

By Lit Century | May 14, 2024

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

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

Featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Noé Álvarez, Anna Dorn and More.

By Teddy Wayne | May 14, 2024

Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “This Strange Eventful History”

By Jane Ciabattari | May 14, 2024

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

Colombe Schneck on Writing Against Shame and Solitude

By Colombe Schneck | May 14, 2024

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 14, 2024

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Monika Zgustova Explores Childhood Sexual Abuse and Its Aftermath, On and Off the Page

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