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    Literary History

    Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
    To Write?

    By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

    By Dan Bevacqua  February 4, 2020
    Poem

    “Something of the Sky”

    By Christian Wiman  February 4, 2020
    Storybound

    Diksha Basu Performs a Passage From Her Novel The Windfall

    By Storybound   February 4, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Abeer Hoque, Sarah Perry, and Jason Tougaw

    By LIC Reading Series  February 4, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Produced by L.A. Theatre Works

    By Behind the Mic   February 4, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    MFA Life

    Ten MFA Archetypes To Avoid (Becoming)

    By Caroline Zancan  February 3, 2020
    Conmen

    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
    News and Culture

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  February 3, 2020
    In Conversation

    Scarlett Thomas on the Tricky Work of Writing the Unsayable

    By Lori Feathers  February 3, 2020
    Love

    The Delicate Art of Living Alone: Asking the French About Love

    By Stefania Rousselle  February 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

    By Melissa Mesku  February 3, 2020
    Memoir

    How to Write Autofiction About Your Family Without Losing Your Mind

    By Eleanor Anstruther  February 3, 2020
    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    Emma Marris on the (Very) Deep Human Relationship with Soil

    By Emergence Magazine  February 3, 2020
    First Draft

    Luke Geddes on the Glamorous World of Antique Mall Proprietorship

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor, Read by Allyson Johnson

    By Behind the Mic   February 3, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of January

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2020
    The Nuclear Age

    How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

    By Fred M. Kaplan  January 31, 2020
    Freedom of the Press

    Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for ‘Unspecified Reasons’

    By Kaya Genç  January 31, 2020
    Neuroscience

    We’re Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment’s Effect on Brain Health

    By Donna Jackson Nakazawa  January 31, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    What to Read

    14 Books You Should Read
    in February

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Keen On

    Andrew McAfee Has Some Ideas About How to Fix Capitalism (and Save the Planet)

    By Keen On  January 31, 2020
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