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    Features

    Best of the Week: December 19 – 23, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 24, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2016

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2016
    What to Read

    15 Books to Read If You Find Yourself Alone for the Holidays

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 23, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 23, 2016
    Criticism

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Atheist Marvels, Just in Time For Christmas

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 23, 2016
    Excerpts

    Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

    By Jeanette Winterson  December 23, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 22, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 22, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    Literary Hub’s 10 Most Read Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2016
    Deep Dive

    On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

    By Emily Temple  December 22, 2016
    Criticism

    Against Nature Writing

    By Blair Braverman  December 22, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 21, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 21, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

    By Emily Temple  December 21, 2016
    Conversations

    Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly on History, Intersectionality, and Adaptation

    By Kristen O'Neal  December 21, 2016
    Conversations

    On Poverty, Justice, and Writing Sonnets of the South

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2016
    Profile

    The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

    By Dwyer Murphy  December 21, 2016
    Poets

    Girls In Trees (In Art, In Literature)

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2016
    Feature

    Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

    By Lawrence Block  December 21, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 20, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 20, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    Literary Hub’s Best Books of 2016

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2016
    Deep Dive

    The Ghost of Christmas Cheer

    By Timothy Hallinan  December 20, 2016
    What to Read

    10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 20, 2016
    Feature

    18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

    By Emily Temple  December 20, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Shirley Hazzard’s Teenage Spy Career

    By Paul French  December 20, 2016
    What to Read

    Five Books Making News This Week: Criticism, Conservation & Cartography

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 20, 2016
    History

    A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

    By David Welky  December 20, 2016
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