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    2021

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2021
    Musicians

    To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield

    By Ayana Contreras  December 15, 2021
    Creativity

    How a Sense of Awe Can Ignite Creativity

    By Emily Willingham  December 15, 2021
    Greek Literature

    Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

    By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   December 15, 2021
    The Hub

    PRH and S&S call the lawsuit against them “legally, factually, and economically wrong.”

    By Walker Caplan  December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Colm Tóibín has won the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature.

    By Snigdha Koirala  December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Reminder: the most famous short story in American literature was written in one day.

    By Walker Caplan  December 14, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

    By Sandra Steingraber  December 14, 2021
    Tourism

    How “Dark Tourism” Warps Our Understanding of History

    By Hasanthika Sirisena  December 14, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate

    By Michael A. Gonzales  December 14, 2021
    Influences

    Words with Fangs: Finding Myself in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    By Elizabeth Acevedo  December 14, 2021
    Grief

    Why We Need New Vocabulary to Describe the Ending of the Grief That Comes After Loss

    By Pauline Boss  December 14, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    This Is Ear Hustle by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    “Never think you’re too weird.” Read Anne Rice’s best writing advice.

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2021
    The Hub

    The Red Badge of Courage now has a sequel in which Henry Fleming becomes mayor.

    By Walker Caplan  December 13, 2021
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    Anne Rice, the Queen of Gothic Literature, has died at the age of 80.

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens When I Don’t Understand My Own Novel?

    By Bonnie Friedman  December 13, 2021
    Cartoons

    On New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren’s Sketches for the End Times

    By Howard Norman  December 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Aysegül Savas on the Business of Writing Beyond the Language of Business

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2021
    Wine

    “The Wines Tasted Alive.” Visiting an Icon of Natural Winemaking in Slovenia

    By Rachel Signer  December 13, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Keum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and White Illustration

    By Alexander Chee  December 13, 2021
    Keen On

    David Mikics on Who Stanley Kubrick Really Was

    By Keen On  December 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    From Joni to Dylan: On the Bards of 1960s Pop

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2021
    Social Justice

    On Telling the Story of Injustice Through Memoir

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2021
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