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    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2016
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    By Cait Murphy  October 25, 2016
    Essay

    Edward Albee, Big in Bulgaria

    By Dimiter Kenarov  October 24, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

    By Barney Rosset  October 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 12, 2016
    Feature

    The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

    By Dawn MacKeen  October 12, 2016
    Essay

    The Man Who Invented Bookselling As We Know It

    By John Pipkin  October 11, 2016
    Did you know?

    Picturing Frederick Douglass

    By James Sullivan  October 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    So Who Was Jack the Ripper?

    By Otto Penzler  October 4, 2016
    Essay

    Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

    By P.N. Singer  September 30, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Young Rilke Moved to the Big City and Met Rodin

    By Rachel Corbett  September 23, 2016
    Essay

    The Case for White Curiosity

    By Patrick Phillips  September 22, 2016
    Feature

    The History (and Present) of Banning Books in America

    By Amy Brady  September 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    Fascist, Communist, Writer, Duchess… The Legend of the Mitford Sisters

    By Laura Thompson  September 21, 2016
    Feature

    Jeanette Winterson on Paris’s Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

    By Lit Hub Photography  September 20, 2016
    Criticism

    Hitler’s Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

    By Peter Ho Davies  September 7, 2016
    Excerpts

    How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

    By Ilan Stavans  September 2, 2016
    Biography

    The Forgotten History of Florence’s Mixed-Race Medici

    By Catherine Fletcher  September 2, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco

    By Anastasia Aukeman  September 2, 2016
    Design

    The Lost Art of Custom-Illustrating Your Favorite Books

    By Amy Stewart  August 30, 2016
    Essay

    Men of Power and Their Obsession with Winston Churchill

    By Anthony Audi  August 25, 2016
    History

    On the Barbizon Hotel, and the Women Writers Who Lived There

    By Nathan Smith  August 23, 2016
    Excerpts

    When the Beatles Played Memphis,50 Years Ago Today

    By Jon Savage  August 19, 2016
    Essay

    My Grandfather, the French Resistance Fighter

    By Rachel Hall  August 19, 2016
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