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    5 Great August Books You May Have Missed

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 8, 2017
    What to Read

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    Excerpts

    At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America

    By Jane Lazarre  September 8, 2017
    Criticism

    Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

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    Awards

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    By Literary Hub  September 7, 2017
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    Lit Hub Daily: September 7, 2017

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    Art

    The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

    By Meghan Forbes  September 7, 2017
    Music

    Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Lover

    By Emily Temple  September 7, 2017
    Advice

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    By Helen Sword  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie

    By Mark Haskell Smith  September 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    Scenes from an Emergency Clinic in the Sonoran Desert

    By Lee Sandusky  September 7, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: September 6, 2017

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    Personal Essay

    A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?

    By Kyoko Mori  September 6, 2017
    What to Read

    10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

    By Emily Temple  September 6, 2017
    What to Read

    How Women Experience Beauty: A Reading List

    By Sofi Oksanen  September 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America

    By Brandon Taylor  September 6, 2017
    Did you know?

    Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

    By Michael Lynn Crews  September 6, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Spies, Second Wives, and the South

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 6, 2017
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    Lit Hub Daily: September 5, 2017

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    Q and A

    Salman Rushdie’s First Love Was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
    Poets

    dear white america: A Poem by Danez Smith

    By Danez Smith  September 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

    By Chelsea Martin  September 5, 2017
    Poets

    90 Lines For John Ashbery’s 90th Birthday

    By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
    Poets

    “Here in a State of Tectonic Tension,” A Poem by Lawrence Joseph

    By Lawrence Joseph  September 5, 2017
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