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    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
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    The Hub

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    The Hub

    And the host of the 71st National Book Awards is…

    By Literary Hub  November 5, 2020
    2020 Election

    Election Night in the Heart of the Capital: Proud Boys, Parties, and Protest

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2020
    Family History

    Between the Cane Rows: Principles of Making in the Cycles of Power

    By Patrick Rosal  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    Wayne Coyne: The Last Song I’d Play Before I Die

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    Technology

    How to Feel Like a
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    Beyond the Page

    Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

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    Keen On

    Is the Algorithm Undermining Democracy?

    By Keen On  November 5, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 5, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won’t Be Easy, But It’s Necessary Work

    By Just the Right Book   November 5, 2020
    Teaching High School

    The High School Teacher Who Changed Kaveh Akbar’s Life

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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 5, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel: What Will It Take to Restore Faith in Facts?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 5, 2020
    Grooming

    Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut… and It All Goes Downhill From There

    By Jerald Walker  November 5, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes, Read by David Attenborough

    By Behind the Mic   November 5, 2020
    New Books Network

    Robots: Overlords or Friends?

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    The Hub

    6 definitively good things that came out of last night’s election.

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    The Maris Review

    David Sedaris Is Over Readers Calling His Family Dysfunctional

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    Classical Music

    I Knew How to Play Bach, But That Didn’t Mean I Was Good

    By Dan Moller  November 4, 2020
    Titles

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    Arts and Crafts

    On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

    By Loretta Napoleoni  November 4, 2020
    On Craft

    Colm Tóibín: How Rules of Craft Inhibit Creativity

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
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