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    Aging

    The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

    By E.J. Levy  June 10, 2021
    Book Dreams

    When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

    By Book Dreams  June 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Why is every on-screen antiheroine suddenly vaping?

    By Walker Caplan  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Prepare your trumpets: This year’s Venice Biennale is Leonora Carrington-themed.

    By Emily Temple  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Sub-literate congressman attempts to mock bestselling journalist, fails miserably.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Why Sally Rooney should be more like Dave Eggers.

    By Emily Temple  June 9, 2021
    NASA

    How Legendary Physicist Richard Feynman Helped Crack the Case on the Challenger Disaster

    By Kevin Cook  June 9, 2021
    Ecology

    On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

    By Gillian Osborne  June 9, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 9, 2021
    Craft

    On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

    By Ron Hogan  June 9, 2021
    Insomnia

    Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

    By Aminatta Forna  June 9, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    On the Alarming Disappearance and Destruction of America’s Great Wetlands

    By Patricia Hanlon  June 9, 2021
    Science!

    The Science (and Science Fiction) of Cryonic Preservation

    By Philip Jaekl  June 9, 2021
    Keen On

    How Ancient Mythologies Still Culminate in Anti-Islam Policies

    By Keen On  June 9, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jenny Lawson on (Dark) Humor as a Conduit to Compassion

    By Reading Women  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Olivia Rodrigo started her career playing a book lover on TV.

    By Katie Yee  June 8, 2021
    Travel

    Seamus Heaney’s wife is launching a Seamus Heaney-themed walking tour.

    By Walker Caplan  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Liam Neeson is your new Philip Marlowe.

    By Dan Sheehan  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Tsitsi Dangarembga has won the PEN Pinter Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Michelle Zauner will score the film adaptation of her own memoir, Crying in H Mart.

    By Walker Caplan  June 8, 2021
    Hiking

    How a Bill Bryson Bestseller Changed the Appalachian Trail—For Better or Worse

    By Philip D'Anieri  June 8, 2021
    Lit Century

    Who Might Have Discovered DNA’s Structure, Given the Opportunity to Try?

    By Lit Century   June 8, 2021
    Coronavirus

    Why Fox News Has Blood on Its Hands

    By Brian Stelter  June 8, 2021
    Reading Lists

    “My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

    By John Paul Brammer  June 8, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  June 8, 2021
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