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Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

Roy Christopher on the Intersection of Books and Beats

By Roy Christopher | March 18, 2019

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

(In the Press, by a Jury of His Enemies)

By Emily Temple | March 18, 2019

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Thomas E. Ricks on the Shadows at the Edge of Updike's Work

By Thomas E. Ricks | March 18, 2019

Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

Xu Xi on the Changing Attitudes to Filial Piety

By Xu Xi | March 18, 2019

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

James Brooke-Smith Considers a Miserable Genre

By James Brooke-Smith | March 18, 2019

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

From Frederic Pajak's Illustrated Memoir, Uncertain Manifesto

By Frederic Pajak | March 18, 2019

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Poet W.S. Merwin Dies at 91

By Corinne Segal | March 15, 2019

Ada Limón: “I Have Never Done Anything Alone”

Ada Limón: “I Have Never Done Anything Alone”

From Her Acceptance Speech For the NBCC Poetry Awards

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: March 15, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: March 15, 2019

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Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Writing Novels, Reporting on Murders, Curating Folk Concerts... She Could Do It All

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

James Joyce's Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

James Joyce's Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

The Streets in Ulysses Are the Streets of the Everyman

By Sarah Baxter | March 15, 2019

Why Salt Lake City is a Great Place for a Writer to Live

Why Salt Lake City is a Great Place for a Writer to Live

Artist Collectives, Festivals, and a Honest-to-Goodness Subculture

By Paisley Rekdal | March 15, 2019

The Time I Crashed at Nora Ephron's Apartment

The Time I Crashed at Nora Ephron's Apartment

Michael Mewshaw Recalls the Literary Jetset of the 1980s

By Michael Mewshaw | March 15, 2019

Lit Hub Recommends: <em>Underland</em>, Rachel Ingalls, <em>The Magicians</em>, and More

Lit Hub Recommends: Underland, Rachel Ingalls, The Magicians, and More

Also, Lisa Kudrow from 1997.

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

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