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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Subversive Power of Gossip

    By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

    By Rebecca Mead  September 15, 2021
    New York City

    Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

    By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
    Thresholds

    Maggie Nelson on Climate Change and Hopelessness

    By Thresholds   September 15, 2021
    Keen On

    Giulio Boccaletti on How Water Shapes Society

    By Keen On  September 15, 2021
    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    Poetry

    “Drain”

    By Devon Walker-Figueroa  September 15, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Sarah Gilmartin Reads from Dinner Party: A Tragedy

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    When Incarceration Comes Home: On Prison “Reforms” That Still Do Harm

    By Reading Women  September 15, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Republic of Detours by Scott Borchert, Read by Jonathan Yen

    By Behind the Mic   September 15, 2021
    Keen On

    Minal Bopaiah on Equity as the Foundation for Group Success

    By Keen On  September 15, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
    Science Writing

    Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories

    By Corinne Segal  September 14, 2021
    Fairy Tales

    Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?

    By John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna  September 14, 2021
    Xenophobia

    How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in Native Son

    By George Makari  September 14, 2021
    Big Table

    Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential

    By Big Table  September 14, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 14, 2021
    Feminism

    Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

    By Luisa Capetillo  September 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Water, Water Everywhere: Readings on Life’s Essential Ingredient

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 14, 2021
    Keen On

    Edward Glaeser on the Evolution of City Life

    By Keen On  September 14, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s

    By So Many Damn Books  September 14, 2021
    Storybound

    Sarah Thankam Mathews Reads Her Story “Rubberdust”

    By Storybound   September 14, 2021
    Keen On

    Azeem Azhar on Technology and the Exponential Gap

    By Keen On  September 14, 2021
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