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Lit Hub Daily: June 20, 2017

Lit Hub Daily: June 20, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | June 20, 2017

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

By Veronica Esposito | June 20, 2017

Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

From John Cheever to Amy Hempel, Saying Much in Few Words

By Olivia Clare Friedman | June 20, 2017

David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, 'The Most Unlikely Leader Ever'

David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, 'The Most Unlikely Leader Ever'

In Conversation with the London-Based Writer and Anthropologist

By Christopher Lydon | June 20, 2017

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

Talking to the Author of the Man Booker Prize-Winning The Sellout

By Julie Phillips | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

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Minae Mizumura on Serializing Novels, Aging, and the Eternal Internet

By Benjamin Moser | June 20, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Widows, War, and Weight

By Jane Ciabattari | June 20, 2017

Lit Hub Daily: June 19, 2017

By Lit Hub Daily | June 19, 2017

James Salter's Last Interview

James Salter's Last Interview

In Conversation with the Late, Great American Writer

By Alexander Slotnick | June 19, 2017

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

Without defying limits and social conventions, There would be no cool

By Joel Dinerstein | June 19, 2017

Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

Matthew Carr Moves from Nonfiction to Fiction in Exploring Muslim Spain

By Matthew Carr | June 19, 2017

Nancy Mitford, Inventor of Eccentric English Style

Nancy Mitford, Inventor of Eccentric English Style

On the (Very) Strong Fashion Opinions of a British Icon

By Terry Newman | June 19, 2017

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Speaking with Manal al-Sharif about Defiance and Disclosure

By Sabrina Toppa | June 19, 2017

10 Books That Will Help You Understand Hawaii

10 Books That Will Help You Understand Hawaii

From Poetry to Photography, History, and Ethnography

By Mike Dillon | June 19, 2017

Lit Hub Weekly: June 12 - 16, 2017

Lit Hub Weekly: June 12 - 16, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | June 17, 2017

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