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    The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

    By Michael Bourne  February 3, 2016
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    Willful Disregard

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    The Forgetting Time

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 1, 2016
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    The Pirate

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 29, 2016
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    The Cowboy Bible

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    Biography

    Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant

    By Bridget Read  January 26, 2016
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    Good on Paper

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 26, 2016
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    “Bang Bang on the Stair”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 25, 2016
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    The Core of the Sun

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 21, 2016
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    The Blue Line

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 20, 2016
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    The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 19, 2016
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    The Happy Marriage

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 15, 2016
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    The Nest

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 15, 2016
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    Under the Harrow

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 15, 2016
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    Girls On Fire

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 15, 2016
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    And Again

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 13, 2016
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    The Case of Lisandra P.

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 12, 2016
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    “Dead Doormen”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 11, 2016
    In Memoriam

    Charles Baxter on Larry Levis, and a Moment of Genius

    By Charles Baxter  January 8, 2016
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    Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 8, 2016
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    “Hall of Small Mammals”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 8, 2016
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    The Expatriates

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 7, 2016
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    The Past

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    Mr. Splitfoot

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    Travelers Rest

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    End of Year Lists

    The Best Poetry Collections of 2015

    By Adam Fitzgerald  December 31, 2015
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    James Joyce’s “The Dead”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 30, 2015
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    “The First Snowfall” by Guy de Maupassant

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 29, 2015
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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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    “The Clancy Kid”

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