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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

    By Literary Hub  October 4, 2022
    Animals

    How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

    By Ray Nayler  October 4, 2022
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable From Amelia Abraham: “The Rat & The Hamster”

    By Future Fables  October 4, 2022
    Political Science

    Sidelined No More: A Reading List of Fiercely Political Women

    By Eve Fairbanks  October 4, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Longest Retreat: Ryan Lee Wong on the Intersection of Writing, Meditating, and Community

    By Ryan Lee Wong  October 4, 2022
    Bookstores

    New York City’s Best Bookstore Storefronts: An Illustrated (Incomplete) List

    By David Dodge and Joel Holland  October 4, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    For Us All Act I: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

    By Audiobook Break  October 4, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Luke Geddes on Writing with a Sense of Humor

    By I'm a Writer But   October 4, 2022
    Soccer

    On Falling in Love with Goalkeeping

    By Kelcey Ervick  October 4, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Mr. Perfect on Paper by Jean Meltzer, Read by Dara Rosenberg

    By Behind the Mic   October 4, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Lethem on Discovering “Worlds Within the World”

    By The Writers Institute  October 4, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Amitav Ghosh on the Importance of Re-Centering Stories of the Land

    By Emergence Magazine  October 3, 2022
    Painting

    What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

    By Douglas Dreishpoon  October 3, 2022
    The Writing Life

    On Phone Sex, First Writing Jobs, and Unexpected Teachers

    By Lynn Melnick  October 3, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    October’s 8 Best
    SF and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  October 3, 2022
    Write-minded

    Jeff Vandermeer on Writing Imaginative Fiction

    By Memoir Nation   October 3, 2022
    Future Fables

    Introducing Future Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults

    By Future Fables  October 3, 2022
    Experimental Fiction

    Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

    By Alyssa Quinn  October 3, 2022
    Fascism

    Fascism and Illness Have Long Been Intertwined in Italy’s National Consciousness

    By Thea Lenarduzzi  October 3, 2022
    First Draft

    Katie Runde on Trusting the Reader Will Extrapolate

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 3, 2022
    The Labor Movement

    Why the Left Needs Organized Labor

    By Raina Lipsitz  October 3, 2022
    Cuba

    Ada Ferrer on the Connections Between Cuba and the US

    By Ada Ferrer  October 3, 2022
    History of Literature

    The Cultural Influence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Indian Novelist Saikat Majumdar

    By History of Literature  October 3, 2022
    Poetry

    “Truth Procedure #1.” A Poem by Olena Kalytiak Davis

    By Olena Kalytiak Davis  October 3, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer, Read by Robert Petkoff

    By Behind the Mic   October 3, 2022
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