Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This August

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This August

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | August 6, 2021

We Should All Be Playing in the Dirt More... According to Science!

We Should All Be Playing in the Dirt More... According to Science!

Lucy Jones on the Health Benefits of Engaging With the Outdoors

By Lucy Jones | August 6, 2021

7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

Allison Larkin Recommends Emma Brodie, Willa Cather, and More

By Allison Larkin | August 6, 2021

How a Ride-Sharing Collective Aims to Combat the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

How a Ride-Sharing Collective Aims to Combat the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Marcello Di Cintio on the Kindness and Communal Solidarity of Ikwe Safe Rides

By Marcello Di Cintio | August 6, 2021

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

"I don’t believe life is narrative."

By Larissa Pham | August 6, 2021

Joe Keohane on the Case for Talking to Strangers

Joe Keohane on the Case for Talking to Strangers

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 6, 2021

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“Permian Sea”

By Logen Cure | August 6, 2021

Yearbook by Seth Rogen, Read by Seth Rogen and a Full Cast

By Behind the Mic | August 6, 2021

Catherine Raven: Why We’re More Like Animals Than We Think

By The Literary Life | August 6, 2021

Kelsey McKinney on Megachurches, Girlhood, and Staying Faithful to Her Book

Kelsey McKinney on Megachurches, Girlhood, and Staying Faithful to Her Book

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 5, 2021

Celeste Ng on the Unabashed<br> Joy of the Muppets

Celeste Ng on the Unabashed
Joy of the Muppets

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | August 5, 2021

Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

In Praise of Mother Juno by the Gun Club

By Rachel Kushner | August 5, 2021

Getting to Know an Author Through Their Home

Getting to Know an Author Through Their Home

Amy Belding Brown on Visiting the Houses of Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and More

By Amy Belding Brown | August 5, 2021

To Be Popular You Must Already Be Popular: On the Dangers of the Bandwagon Effect

To Be Popular You Must Already Be Popular: On the Dangers of the Bandwagon Effect

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein Consider the Power of Social Influence

By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein | August 5, 2021

Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and Sustaining—Creativity

Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and Sustaining—Creativity

The Author of All's Well Answers the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 5, 2021

Inside the Mind—and Heart—of the Other Woman: On Thought-Provoking Infidelity Narratives

Inside the Mind—and Heart—of the Other Woman: On Thought-Provoking Infidelity Narratives

The Author of Her Turn Considers Books About Marital Affairs

By Katherine Ashenburg | August 5, 2021

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