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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

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"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

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

By Erin Berger | December 18, 2019

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

By Laleh Khadivi | December 18, 2019

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

On Gershon Legman, Original Sex-Positive Hipster Intellectual

By Susan G. Davis | December 18, 2019

Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

James Tate Hill Suggests Some Quick and Easy Stocking Stuffers

By James Tate Hill | December 18, 2019

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

Rick Moody on Bullet Park

By Rick Moody | December 18, 2019

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?

By Jim Davies | December 18, 2019

Unearthing the Stories of Australia's Working Class

Unearthing the Stories of Australia's Working Class

Enza Gandolfo on Finding Herself in the Novels of Dorothy Hewitt

By Enza Gandolfo | December 18, 2019

Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

After a Decade in the US, Lawand Kiki was Forced
to Leave for Damascus

By Mike Giglio | December 18, 2019

Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 18, 2019

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