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The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books

The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books

Or: Some Books That Mention a Lot of Other Books

By Emily Temple | September 20, 2017

Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject

By James Atlas | September 20, 2017

More than the Beauty or the Heroine

More than the Beauty or the Heroine

On Books by Julie Buntin and Carolyn Murnick That Complicate a Girlhood Trope

By Zan Romanoff | September 20, 2017

How Much Actual History Do You Need for a Historical Novel?

How Much Actual History Do You Need for a Historical Novel?

Hannah Kent on Searching for the Life of Her Main Character

By Hannah Kent | September 20, 2017

A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

"Maybe I Could Feel Pity, If Not Grief and Love"

By Mako Yoshikawa | September 20, 2017

What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

The Frisson of Political Participation Without the Risk of Genuine Solidarity

By Dawn Herrera Helphand | September 20, 2017

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  • Glyph
  • Dog Days
  • All Them Dogs
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Parallelogram

By Emily Skillings | September 20, 2017

The Future of New Writing: Introducing Freeman's, Issue Four

By John Freeman | September 19, 2017

Lit Hub Daily: September 19, 2017

By Lit Hub Daily | September 19, 2017

Franklin Foer on the Existential Threat of Big Tech

Franklin Foer on the Existential Threat of Big Tech

The Author of World Without Mind Talks to Andrew Keen

By Andrew Keen | September 19, 2017

Jesmyn Ward on Ava DuVernay, Reading History, and the Art of the Profile

Jesmyn Ward on Ava DuVernay, Reading History, and the Art of the Profile

The Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing in Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | September 19, 2017

Life on the Road, and in a Walmart Parking Lot

Life on the Road, and in a Walmart Parking Lot

Jessica Bruder Goes on the Road with the Modern Day Drifters

By Jessica Bruder | September 19, 2017

Gwendolyn Brooks, <em>Maud Martha</em>, and Other Immortal Mortals

Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

How Brooks Lives On Through Her Fictional Alter-Ego

By Carina del Valle Schorske | September 19, 2017

A Lost Voice, Writer's Block, and a New Life

A Lost Voice, Writer's Block, and a New Life

Tova Mirvis Uncovers a Way to Speak the Truth

By Tova Mirvis | September 19, 2017

Finding Truth in Ballet and the Movies

Finding Truth in Ballet and the Movies

Brigid Hughes in Conversation with John Haskell

By Brigid Hughes | September 19, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Craft, Crime, and Trauma

5 Books Making News This Week: Craft, Crime, and Trauma

John McPhee, Attica Locke, Elizabeth Rosner, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | September 19, 2017

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