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    “Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs”

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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Dictators are Always Afraid of Poets

    By David Naimon  April 6, 2018
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    Blue Self-Portrait

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    4 Poems by Lola Ridge

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    Two Stories

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    The Emissary

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    The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

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    The Chandelier

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    “The Epidemic”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 3, 2018
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    Whirlaway: The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying, & Record-Collecting Novel

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 2, 2018
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    47 of Your Favorite Writers on Their Favorite Poems

    By Emily Temple  April 2, 2018
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    France’s Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America

    By Matt Grant  April 2, 2018
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    10 New Poetry Collections to Read During National Poetry Month

    By Cassidy Foust  April 2, 2018
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    “Captain Renzi”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 30, 2018
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    Census

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 29, 2018
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    Let’s No One Get Hurt

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 28, 2018
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    Wendy Xu on the Impossible Complexity of Immigrant Love

    By Peter Mishler  March 27, 2018
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    Feast Days

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 27, 2018
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    The Gunners

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 26, 2018
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    “The Dot Sisters”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 23, 2018
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    My Hotel Room at the Crowne Plaza, Dubai

    By Jerry Pinto  March 23, 2018
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    Landscape with Written Statement by Lynn Melnick

    By Lynn Melnick  March 23, 2018
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    Stray City

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 22, 2018
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    Legacy by Reginald Dwayne Betts

    By Reginald Dwayne Betts  March 22, 2018
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    The Fighter

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 21, 2018
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    John Edgar Wideman: Of Course I Anticipated Disaster

    By John Edgar Wideman  March 21, 2018
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    Dear Melissa By TC Tolbert

    By TC Tolbert  March 21, 2018
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    Hooligan By Philipp Winkler

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 21, 2018
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    Elephants in the Garden By Meral Kureyshi

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    Phantoms By Robert Prosser

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