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Dreaming of Being a Writer When You've Never Actually Met One

Dreaming of Being a Writer When You've Never Actually Met One

On Growing Up in the Literary Backwaters of Missouri

By Lauren Puckett | April 25, 2019

On Early 20th-Century America's Unhealthy Fixation with 'Hygiene'

On Early 20th-Century America's Unhealthy Fixation with 'Hygiene'

Junk Science, Paternalism, and a Misplaced Faith in 'Expertise'

By Anne Harrington | April 25, 2019

When a Family Has More <br>Than One Writer

When a Family Has More
Than One Writer

What Memories Are Off Limits?

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How to Be a Normal Person <br>in Hollywood

How to Be a Normal Person
in Hollywood

A Humble Writer Reports From the Land of Movie Stars

By Melanie Benjamin | April 25, 2019

David Shields on the Painstaking<br> Work of Collage

David Shields on the Painstaking
Work of Collage

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

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Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2019

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By Lit Hub Daily | April 24, 2019

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Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library

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Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

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Finding My Character's Home
on Google Street View

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What I Learned from Keeping a List<br> of Every Book I Read

What I Learned from Keeping a List
of Every Book I Read

Not Shockingly, an Awful Lot of Men

By Pamela Nadell | April 24, 2019

Saying Goodbye to My Beloved<br> Local Bookstore

Saying Goodbye to My Beloved
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Susan Harlan Offers an Appreciation of Winston-Salem's Bright Leaf Books

By Susan Harlan | April 24, 2019

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Thinking Thick and Cannibalizing Trauma

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Thinking Thick and Cannibalizing Trauma

With Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett on Reading Women

By Reading Women | April 24, 2019

An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

How Death-Positive Activism Has—and Hasn't—Changed in 40 Years

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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't As Dark<br> As We Thought

The 'Dark Ages' Weren't As Dark
As We Thought

History Flickers In and Out of Darkness, No Matter the Era

By Simon Winder | April 24, 2019

Scenes From a Marriage: <br>Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda

Scenes From a Marriage:
Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda

Blake Hazard Introduces Tender Is the Night

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Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2019

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