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When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

Two New York Legends Collide

By Tim Sultan | February 26, 2016

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

On the Anniversary of His Death, a Look at his life and crimes in the Big Apple

By Arvind Dilawar | February 19, 2016

The Women of Oscar Wilde

The Women of Oscar Wilde

13 Facts About the Ladies in His Life

By Eleanor Fitzsimons | February 18, 2016

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

Sixty Years Ago, at the Launch Party for a Literary Journal (Of Course)

By Belinda McKeon | February 17, 2016

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Aleksandar Tišma: “All my novels are autobiographical.”

By Charles Simic | February 16, 2016

I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

How Scientist Fang Lizhi became an Enemy of the State

By Fang Lizhi | February 11, 2016

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By Michelle Hoover | February 5, 2016

How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

By Taylor Brown | February 3, 2016

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By Matt Gallagher | February 2, 2016

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By Andrea Molesini | February 1, 2016

Travels to Nowhere

Travels to Nowhere

Documenting the Disconnections of Global Flight

By Lit Hub Photography | January 26, 2016

A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

Cave-ins, explosions, and hard, brutal work

By James Green | January 25, 2016

A Novel of Putin's Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

A Novel of Putin's Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

The Courage of Reporter-Turned-Novelist Oleg Kashin

By Will Evans | January 25, 2016

Are the Kids All Right?

Are the Kids All Right?

Larry Clark's Proto-Hipster Teen Grotesque Turns 20

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Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Janeway

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 22, 2016

A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

In Which Food Poisoning is Diagnosed as "Culture Shock"

By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman | January 21, 2016

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