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Eight Books You Should Read in July

Eight Books You Should Read in July

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | July 7, 2020

Nerd Jeopardy's Grand Finale! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

Nerd Jeopardy's Grand Finale! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

Hosted by Ryan Chapman

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 7, 2020

Meredith Talusan on Finding the Space to Tell Her Story

Meredith Talusan on Finding the Space to Tell Her Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 7, 2020

On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News

On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News

Rachel Beanland: When Silence Isn't Always a Kindness

By Rachel Beanland | July 7, 2020

Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Using Fictional Techniques in Biography

Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Using Fictional Techniques in Biography

From the Read Smart Podcast, Presented by the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Read Smart | July 7, 2020

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on Why We Need to Engage in Patriotic Dissent

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on Why We Need to Engage in Patriotic Dissent

From the Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengraber

By The Quarantine Tapes | July 7, 2020

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Announcing Season 2 of the Storybound Podcast

By Storybound | July 7, 2020

Antibody: Starring Brit Bennett, Michele Filgate, and Lynn Steger Strong

By The Antibody Reading Series | July 7, 2020

Behind the Mic: On The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Read by the Author

By Behind the Mic | July 7, 2020

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

The Author of Want In Conversation with Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | July 6, 2020

On Louise Erdrich, and Salvaging Wisdom From Absurdity and Injustice

On Louise Erdrich, and Salvaging Wisdom From Absurdity and Injustice

James Lenfestey on an Icon of the Native American
Literary Renaissance

By James P. Lenfestey | July 6, 2020

Even Seamus Heaney <br>Made Mistakes

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

On Poetry, Wordsworth, and Misremembering

By Erica McAlpine | July 6, 2020

In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

Anthony Grafton: When Writing Could Be Back-Breaking Work

By Anthony Grafton | July 6, 2020

Rural Stories That Get it Right: A Reading List

Rural Stories That Get it Right: A Reading List

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips on Country-Based Fiction

By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips | July 6, 2020

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

Jeremy Woody on Life in the State Prison, as Told to Christie Thompson

By Jeremy Woody | July 6, 2020

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter's Writing Means to Her

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter's Writing Means to Her

Criticism in Verse by the Author of Terra Nullius

By Claire G. Coleman | July 6, 2020

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