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    The Writing Life

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Jackson, Mississippi

    By Tom Head  May 13, 2019
    American History

    Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

    By Susan Ware  May 13, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

    By Jeanna Kadlec  May 13, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: May 6 – 10, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 11, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Tobias Wolff on the Iconic Memoir He Never
    Intended to Write

    By Tobias Wolff  May 10, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 10, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook

    By John McMurtrie  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day Poetry

    ‘Original Fire,’
    A Poem by Louise Erdrich

    By Louise Erdrich  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    What Do Mothers and Children Owe Each Other?

    By Literary Hub  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    When Your Daughter Refuses to Be in Your Essay

    By Beth Alvarado  May 10, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On the Writing Life and Safeguarding Privacy

    By Esi Edugyan  May 10, 2019
    Climate Change

    Nathaniel Rich on the Climate Change Science We’ve Known and Ignored

    By The Literary Life  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    On the Fine Details of New Life, and the Names We Give

    By Sarah Knott  May 10, 2019
    The Things We Like

    Lit Hub Recommends: Legally Blonde, Franny Choi, and Miriam Toews

    By Literary Hub  May 10, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 9, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 9, 2019
    Punk

    Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

    By Vivien Goldman  May 9, 2019
    Recovery

    The Struggle to Learn Nonviolence in a Violent Place

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  May 9, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Erin Somers on Making Her Debut Novel Approachable… to Herself

    By The Maris Review  May 9, 2019
    Plagues

    How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

    By David K. Randall  May 9, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

    By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
    Lost and Found

    One German’s Two-Decade Search for a Poem She Couldn’t Quite Name

    By Susanne Tägder  May 9, 2019
    Libraries

    A Library for the Ragpickers
    of Bangalore

    By Priyanka Sacheti  May 9, 2019
    Refugees

    Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

    By Alev Scott  May 9, 2019
    In Memoriam

    In Memoriam: Stanley Plumly

    By Literary Hub  May 9, 2019
    Classics: Complicated

    The Call of the Wild: Confronting Nature and Existential Terror

    By Literary Disco  May 9, 2019
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