How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms

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How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

John Birdsall on the Unconventional, Trailblazing Existence of an Icon of Southern Cooking

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Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

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Jane Smiley in Conversation with Susan Swan, Author of “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

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Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel

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Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

By Literary Hub | June 18, 2025

Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

Ira Wells on the Emergence and Impact of a Powerful Political Movement In Service to Censorship

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A Beach Boys-inspired reading list: 11 books to fuel a weird, beautiful summer.

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Five literary theme parks to blow your vacation days on.

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How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America

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Anthony Aycock on “Little v. Llano County” and the Increasingly Imperiled Freedom to Read in America

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What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

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Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions

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Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

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Jan Gradvall Sits Down With the Lead Singer of the Iconic Swedish Pop Group

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