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    Historical Fiction

    Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

    By Jo Baker  May 10, 2023
    Songwriting

    Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

    By Warren Zanes  May 10, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Emma Nadler on How Good and Bad Luck Are Inseparably Connected

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Landon Jones on How America Has Devolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Author of children’s book about grief charged with murdur-durdur.

    By Janet Manley  May 9, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Rebecca Curtis’s “Fish Rot.”

    By Janet Manley  May 9, 2023
    Hollywood

    Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

    By Landon Y. Jones  May 9, 2023
    Marriage

    Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

    By Kelly McMasters  May 9, 2023
    Mothers and Daughters

    Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship… At Magic Mike Live in Vegas

    By Connie Wang  May 9, 2023
    Keen On

    Henry Mance on What It Means to Be a Boy Online in 2023

    By Keen On  May 9, 2023
    Family Stories

    Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

    By Fae Myenne Ng  May 9, 2023
    Write-minded

    Joe Biel on Pushing Boundaries in Book Publishing

    By Write-minded   May 9, 2023
    Keen On

    Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

    By Keen On  May 9, 2023
    Keen On

    Atif Rafiq on Whether Innovation is an Art or a Science

    By Keen On  May 9, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Emily Temple  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Did F. Scott Fitzgerald think all women over 35 should be murdered?

    By Dan Sheehan  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    What is this summer’s big mystery book?

    By Emily Temple  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Chinese man builds bookstore on a mountaintop. Yes, he’s a poet.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 8, 2023
    Bookstores

    Meet the owners of the newest bookstore in Brooklyn.

    By Emily Firetog  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Have a look back at every Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction winner of the 21st Century.

    By Literary Hub  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Announcing the 2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows.

    By Literary Hub  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women.”

    By Emily Temple  May 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Scholastic recognizes 100 years of teen writing.

    By Janet Manley  May 8, 2023
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