Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

The Best Writing at the Site in the Year That Was

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2019

How to Break in to Publishing If You're a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

How to Break in to Publishing If You're a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

Novelist Graciliano Ramos's Reports to the Governor of Alagoas Are Literature Unto Themselves

By Padma Viswanathan and Graciliano Ramos | December 20, 2019

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Erin Berger Catches Up With the Author of Dead Astronauts

By Erin Berger | December 18, 2019

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

Laleh Khadivi on Who Owns a Story

By Laleh Khadivi | December 18, 2019

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

On Gershon Legman, Original Sex-Positive Hipster Intellectual

By Susan G. Davis | December 18, 2019

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

Rick Moody on Bullet Park

By Rick Moody | December 18, 2019

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Unearthing the Stories of Australia's Working Class

By Enza Gandolfo | December 18, 2019

High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

By Liesl Schillinger | December 17, 2019

A Season of Books Takes Stock
of #MeToo

By Kaylen Ralph | December 17, 2019

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

The Liberating Messiness of the Neapolitan Quartet Friendship

By Tiziana de Rogatis | December 17, 2019

Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

Mira Jacob on Reading Jasmine

By Mira Jacob | December 17, 2019

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

Gabrielle Bellot on Berger's Final Collaboration

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2019

Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | December 16, 2019

The Rise of the Downfall of <br>the Dirtbag Heiress

The Rise of the Downfall of
the Dirtbag Heiress

Chelsea Davis on a Uniquely American Obsession

By Chelsea Davis | December 13, 2019

Rereading the Master of<br> 'Dying Teen' Lit

Rereading the Master of
'Dying Teen' Lit

Katy Hershberger Considers Lurlene McDaniel and the
Allure of a Problematic Genre

By Katy Hershberger | December 12, 2019

Virginia Woolf's Mother Haunts <br>Much of Her Writing

Virginia Woolf's Mother Haunts
Much of Her Writing

Gillian Gill on Julia Stephen's Multilayered
Relationship with Her Daughter

By Gillian Gill | December 12, 2019

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