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    In Conversation

    James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

    By Robert Penn Warren  April 4, 2019
    Features

    The Best Short Stories from the
    Heart of the Country

    By Donna Baier Stein  April 4, 2019
    News and Culture

    Free to Be… You and Me (And Childfree)

    By Helen Ellis  April 4, 2019
    Book Collection

    A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrates Historic Contributions by Women

    By Literary Hub  April 4, 2019
    Emo Adolescence

    Chloe Aridjis on 19th-Century Books and Teen Goth Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 4, 2019
    Short Story

    ‘Alcatraz’
    A Story by Leanne Shapton

    By Leanne Shapton  April 4, 2019
    Awards

    Meet the Shortlisted Writers for the 2019 Albertine Prize

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: April 3, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  April 3, 2019
    Reading Lists

    19 Books You Should Read This April

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Feature

    The Unused Alternative Covers Behind
    5 Modern Literary Classics

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    MFA Life

    Unsilencing the Writing Workshop

    By Beth Nguyen   April 3, 2019
    Anarchy and Art

    The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

    By Edward Gauvin  April 3, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Family Stories

    Aging in America: Cherríe Moraga on Her Mother’s Struggles

    By Cherríe Moraga  April 3, 2019
    How to...

    On Making Mary Berry’s Fast Cakes
    and Not Writing

    By Emily Temple  April 3, 2019
    Bookstores and Libraries

    Interview with a Bookstore:
    One of the Nation’s Oldest Black-Owned Bookstores

    By Interview with a Bookstore  April 3, 2019
    Memoir

    Why Am I So Embarrassed About
    Hiring a Nanny?

    By Megan Stack  April 3, 2019
    Muslim women

    Reading Women: The Ramadan Edition

    By Reading Women  April 3, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: April 2, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  April 2, 2019
    What to Read

    If Only It Were All Greek: A Reading List from Mary Norris

    By Mary Norris  April 2, 2019
    How to Title Your Book

    Why, Exactly, Do We Have Subtitles on Books?

    By Mary Laura Philpott  April 2, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
    Father Never Really Had

    By Edouard Louis  April 2, 2019
    Teaching

    Why Don’t More Writers Become
    Public School Teachers?

    By Belle Boggs  April 2, 2019
    Profile

    Bryan Washington, Rising Star of Literary Houston

    By Benjamin Rybeck  April 2, 2019
    Oddities

    Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
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