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    Here are the recipients of the 2021 Creative Capital Awards.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 8, 2020
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    William Shakespeare has officially been vaccinated.

    By Walker Caplan  December 8, 2020
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    Okayama City libraries let patrons sterilize their books with the power of UV light.

    By Walker Caplan  December 8, 2020
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    Cover reveal: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s new novel, Savage Tongues.

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction grantees.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 8, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

    By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
    Travel

    Obeying the Undeniable Call of Iceland

    By Roni Horn  December 8, 2020
    Dating

    Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

    By Mikka Jacobsen  December 8, 2020
    On Race

    Real Talk: On Claudia Rankine’s Painful Conversations with Whiteness

    By Shya Scanlon  December 8, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter

    By Lit Century   December 8, 2020
    Keen On

    Does the Simon & Schuster Acquisition Signal an Antitrust Crisis in Publishing?

    By Keen On  December 8, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 8, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 8, 2020
    Poetry

    Poet Sister Artist Comrade: In Celebration of Thulani Davis

    By Jessica Hagedorn  December 8, 2020
    Black Community

    Finding Black Community in the UK as a Black American Expatriate

    By Kenya Hunt  December 8, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Why Are Women Beating Men in Ultra-Endurance Events?

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 8, 2020
    Feminism

    Nicole Brossard on the Impossibility of Saying Everything

    By Nicole Brossard  December 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Cost of Prejudice in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    By New Books Network  December 8, 2020
    The Hub

    The guy behind The Queen’s Gambit is adapting Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark.

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2020
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    A newly unearthed manuscript might hold the key to questions about John Donne’s readership.

    By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2020
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    Read Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

    By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2020
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    30 years after his death, Roald Dahl’s family has apologized for his anti-Semitism.

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2020
    Monoliths?

    On Cairns, Hoodoos, and Monoliths: What Happens in the Desert Shouldn’t Always Stay in the Desert

    By Rebecca Worby  December 7, 2020
    Indie Bookstores

    Why I Bought a Bookstore at 29

    By Samantha Ladwig  December 7, 2020
    Interview

    Tina Turner on the Lessons We Learn Overcoming Adversity

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2020
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