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Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year

Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year

The Author of The Angel of History Alternative to the
Endless 'Best of' Lists

By Rabih Alameddine | December 19, 2019

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Create Your Characters and Build Their World in Less Than an Hour

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

Jonathan Rosenberg on the Time Shostakovich Came to America

By Jonathan Rosenberg | December 19, 2019

The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

Lane Moore on the Anxieties of Grown-Up Loneliness

By Lane Moore | December 19, 2019

Susan Orlean: 'We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody'

Susan Orlean: 'We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody'

The Library Book Author on The Maris Review

By The Maris Review | December 19, 2019

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

From Camilla Townsend's Cundill Prize-Nominated Fifth Sun

By Camilla Townsend | December 19, 2019

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When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities?

By Just the Right Book | December 19, 2019

Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

By Randy O'Brien | December 19, 2019

Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

Onstage Conversations From the LIC Reading Series

By LIC Reading Series | December 19, 2019

The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

Peggy Wallace Kennedy on Her Father's 1958 Defeat

By Peggy Wallace Kennedy | December 19, 2019

"Why can't I buy a Joan Didion tote?" and more questions from the expanded Lit Hub universe answered.

By Jessie Gaynor | December 18, 2019

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Erin Berger Catches Up With the Author of Dead Astronauts

By Erin Berger | December 18, 2019

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

Laleh Khadivi on Who Owns a Story

By Laleh Khadivi | December 18, 2019

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

On Gershon Legman, Original Sex-Positive Hipster Intellectual

By Susan G. Davis | December 18, 2019

Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

James Tate Hill Suggests Some Quick and Easy Stocking Stuffers

By James Tate Hill | December 18, 2019

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