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Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Lisa Lee Herrick Traces Her Ancestry, the Hmong People, from Laos to America

By Lisa Lee Herrick | December 20, 2019

The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

On the Tragically Short Career of a Spellbinding Musician

By Fred Goodman | December 20, 2019

Chef Allen Susser on What It Means to Create Sustainable Cuisine

Chef Allen Susser on What It Means to Create Sustainable Cuisine

The Innovator of New World Cuisine on the
Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | December 20, 2019

Letter from a Bookseller Upon the Death of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison

Letter from a Bookseller Upon the Death of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison

Sheryl Cotleur of Copperfield's Books Remembers
an Icon We Lost This Year

By Sheryl Cotleur | December 20, 2019

Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year

Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year

The Author of The Angel of History Alternative to the
Endless 'Best of' Lists

By Rabih Alameddine | December 19, 2019

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Create Your Characters and Build Their World in Less Than an Hour

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

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When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

By Jonathan Rosenberg | December 19, 2019

The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

By Lane Moore | December 19, 2019

Susan Orlean: 'We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody'

By The Maris Review | December 19, 2019

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

From Camilla Townsend's Cundill Prize-Nominated Fifth Sun

By Camilla Townsend | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities?

How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities?

Michael Roth Argues for Safe Enough Spaces on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | December 19, 2019

Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

The National Book Award-Winning Novelist Speaks to
Randy O'Brien on the AudioFile

By Randy O'Brien | December 19, 2019

Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

Onstage Conversations From the LIC Reading Series

By LIC Reading Series | December 19, 2019

The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

Peggy Wallace Kennedy on Her Father's 1958 Defeat

By Peggy Wallace Kennedy | December 19, 2019

"Why can't I buy a Joan Didion tote?" and more questions from the expanded Lit Hub universe answered.

By Jessie Gaynor | December 18, 2019

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