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    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    The Hub

    A Seattle man is memorizing Finnegans Wake for some reason.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Here’s a way to help a bookseller in need.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 4, 2019
    Celebrity

    Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

    By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
    Philosophy

    Michael Schur on Peter Singer’s Moral Challenge to
    the Rest of Us

    By Michael Schur  December 4, 2019
    Chefs

    Sean Brock on the Ingenuity, Soul, and Care that Created ‘Southern Cuisine’

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 4, 2019
    Freeman's

    The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2019
    Bookstores and Libraries

    Telling the Story of Zimbabwe’s Subversive Creatives

    By Greta Rainbow  December 4, 2019
    Sociology

    Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

    By J. M. Fenster  December 4, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Winners of Reading Women’s 2019 Award!

    By Reading Women  December 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Jeff VanderMeer’s “Borne” universe set to become a TV show.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the 10 books you should read this week.

    By Katie Yee  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    This class on ‘adulting’ at a Virginia library looks ridiculous and I want to take it.

    By Corinne Segal  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Margaret Atwood and her late husband Graeme Gibson reminisce about the intense literary scene of 1970s Toronto.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship has been restored, and he feels fine about it.

    By Corinne Segal  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    This year’s Bad Sex Writing award split between two men and I refuse to make any jokes about it.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
    Food

    The True Tales of a
    Literary Bartender

    By Erika Mailman  December 3, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    Directors

    At the Heart of Werner Herzog’s Brilliance, an Uncomfortable Relationship with Truth

    By Nick Fraser  December 3, 2019
    World War II

    On the Eve of WWII:
    Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris

    By Françoise Frenkel  December 3, 2019
    Religious History

    Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

    By Karen Armstrong  December 3, 2019
    The Hub

    The Apostrophe Protection Society is dead, and we killed it.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Two of the people brought in to clean up the Nobel committee’s act have quit in frustration.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Children who own books more likely to be good readers, reveals obvious study.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
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