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    A Comptroller’s Sonnets and Why Your Bookstore is Just Now Getting the 2025 International Booker Winner

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    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 8, 2025
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    Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores.

    By Brittany Allen  August 6, 2025
    Small Presses

    On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

    By Elizabeth Kaye Cook  August 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

    By James Folta  August 5, 2025
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    Talking Lapham’s Quarterly and Socialist Gothics on The Lit Hub Podcast

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    Travel

    Books to drive the groupchat wild. (Summer edition!)

    By Brittany Allen  July 31, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Here are the 2025 recipients of the $50k Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize.

    By Literary Hub  July 31, 2025
    Politics

    An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
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    Here’s the 2025 Booker Prize longlist.

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
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    James Patterson is writing a book about Luigi Mangione.

    By James Folta  August 7, 2025
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    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  July 25, 2025
    The Hub

    A new George Saunders novel is coming this winter.

    By Emily Temple  July 24, 2025
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    Vladimir Nabokov’s entire backlist is getting a brand new redesign.

    By Emily Temple  July 18, 2025
    The Hub

    10 radical works of fiction and nonfiction that inspired Kylie Cheung’s book on post-Dobbs violence.

    By James Folta  July 17, 2025
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    The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles.

    By Brittany Allen  July 16, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    It’s Anticipation Season (Again) on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   July 11, 2025
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    The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
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    Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
    The Hub

    Is winter finally coming for A Song of Ice and Fire fans?

    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
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    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 27, 2025
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    Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves.

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Lit Hub Podcast is Pro-Trans-Presses, Pro-Fan-Fiction, and Anti-AI

    featuring Brittany Cavallaro, Calvin Kasulke, Casey Plett, Cat Fitzpatrick, Oliver Scialdone, McKayla Coyle, and Drew Broussard

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 27, 2025
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    A new prize from three publishers will champion poetry in translation.

    By James Folta  June 25, 2025
    Free Speech

    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
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    The Train Dreams trailer has just pulled into the station.

    By Brittany Allen  July 28, 2025
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