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Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Rick White on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the Whaleness of Whiteyball

By Rick White | July 13, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Anuk Arudpragasam, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Elizabeth Greenwood, and More

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To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

Tahmima Anam on the Serious Business of Being Funny

By Tahmima Anam | July 13, 2021

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

Savala Nolan on the Medical Field’s Cruel Indifference to Black Mothers

By Savala Nolan | July 13, 2021

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from <em>Dear Black Girl</em>

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from Dear Black Girl

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

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“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

Helen Ellis Talks Feminine Etiquette, Playing Coy, and Winning

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John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

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Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

By Sunjeev Sahota | July 13, 2021

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

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<em>The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story</em>, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

50 Years of Collected Short Fiction

By Behind the Mic | July 13, 2021

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir on the Art Thriving in a Nearly Lost Language

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

AKA the Time George Lucas Disowned a Star Wars Production

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross | July 12, 2021

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Elizabeth Greenwood On the People Who Seek Relationships with the Incarcerated

By Elizabeth Greenwood | July 12, 2021

Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

“Out here, I am huge. Expansive.”

By Carrot Quinn | July 12, 2021

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

Joyce Maynard on Finding Compassion Through the Distance of Fiction

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