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    American History

    Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

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    Otherppl

    Ahmed Naji on Nights in Prison: ‘You Started to Believe That You Could Design Your Dreams’

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    The Hub

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    By Dan Sheehan  February 9, 2021
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    By Walker Caplan  February 9, 2021
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    Remember the time Haruki Murakami offended an entire town?

    By Walker Caplan  February 9, 2021
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    Stephen King is helping a group of elementary students publish a pandemic-themed book.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 9, 2021
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    Why you should watch Body Heat, the best erotic thriller ever made.

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    Rare and lurid document of 18th-century English queerness discovered.

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    Virginia Woolf’s literary burn book has just sold for £21k.

    By Walker Caplan  February 9, 2021
    Fellowships

    Announcing the inaugural class of the PERIPLUS fellowship for BIPOCs.

    By Corinne Segal  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

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    Silicon Valley

    What Is It Like to Be a Black Woman in the Tech Industry?

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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 9, 2021
    Persian Literature

    A Brief History of Metaphor in
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    Storybound

    Shayla Lawson Performs Her Essay “Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter”

    By Storybound   February 9, 2021
    Travel

    Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France

    By Kathleen Phelan  February 9, 2021
    Keen On

    How the Flint Water Crisis Encapsulates Our Growing Distrust of Government

    By Keen On  February 9, 2021
    Healthcare

    Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

    By Lucie Elven  February 9, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The New Map by Daniel Yergin, Read by Robert Petkoff

    By Behind the Mic   February 9, 2021
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    New in TikTok trends: A ten-year-old self-help book?

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    This North Carolina indie bookstore just got a Super Bowl-sized publicity boost.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 8, 2021
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    Watch Amanda Gorman’s Super Bowl poem.

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