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    Brad Phillips: I Have Written Down the Worst of Me

    By Brad Phillips  January 29, 2019
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    Want To Be Happy? Live Like a Woman Over 50

    By Mary Pipher  January 29, 2019
    Essay

    Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe’s Contemporary Dystopia

    By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma  January 29, 2019
    Fave Lists

    So Many Damn Books: The Best of 2018 Episode

    By So Many Damn Books  January 29, 2019
    Poets

    Two Poems by Hala Alyan

    By Hala Alyan  January 29, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: January 28, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  January 28, 2019
    Essay

    How to Explore Literary Yorkshire

    By Lauren Cocking  January 28, 2019
    Deep Dive

    When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 28, 2019
    Essay

    I Saw My Novel’s Protagonist Walking Across the Street

    By Dana Czapnik  January 28, 2019
    Excerpts

    Can Environmental Activism Succeed in China?

    By Klaus Mühlhahn  January 28, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: January 22 – 25, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  January 26, 2019
    Excerpts

    When the Dismal Science Tries to Study Happiness

    By David Pilling  January 26, 2019
    Washington

    Front Row at Michael Bennet’s Senate-Floor Dismantling of Ted Cruz

    By Timothy Denevi  January 25, 2019
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    Lit Hub Daily: January 25, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  January 25, 2019
    Advice

    Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?

    By Benjamin Dreyer  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

    By Daisy Johnson  January 25, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    The Story of a Slave State, a Free State, and the River Separating Them

    By New Books Network  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

    By Mark Mayer  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

    By Katharine Smyth  January 25, 2019
    Poets

    “Duty,” A Poem by Sarah Gambito

    By Sarah Gambito  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    Diana Athill’s Reflections on Aging and Life

    By Diana Athill  January 24, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: January 24, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  January 24, 2019
    Close Reading

    Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

    By Emily Van Duyne  January 24, 2019
    Religion

    R.O. Kwon and Paul Harding Talk God and Faith in American Fiction


    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 24, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief Literary History of Davos

    By Isabelle Mayault  January 24, 2019
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