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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Courtney Maum, Rawi Hage, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  July 9, 2019
    Youth

    On Falling for a Statue of Hermes in Athens

    By Grant Ginder  July 9, 2019
    Tragicomedy

    How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
    The Hub

    Finally! Michael Mann’s Heat novel is just around the corner…

    By Dan Sheehan  July 8, 2019
    Vacations

    How many books should you bring on your summer vacation?

    By Jonny Diamond  July 8, 2019
    Travel

    After 4,000 miles and 5,000 book giveaways, Poetry to the People is back home.

    By Rob Spillman  July 8, 2019
    Baseball

    The American Ballpark: Public Space or Private Playground?

    By Whitney Terrell  July 8, 2019
    Dystopias

    When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

    By Kimi Eisele  July 8, 2019
    Class

    No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: On Food Insecurity in Small-town Maine

    By Kerri Arsenault  July 8, 2019
    Science

    London’s Royal Society: 17th-Century Boys Club or Font of Knowledge?

    By Adrian Tinniswood  July 8, 2019
    The Hub

    Dani Shapiro’s bestselling memoir Inheritance to be adapted into a film

    By Emily Temple  July 3, 2019
    America

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Being a Patriotic Black Southerner

    By Maurice Carlos Ruffin  July 3, 2019
    Icons

    Ruth Reichl on M.F.K. Fisher’s Lifetime of Joyous Eating

    By Ruth Reichl  July 3, 2019
    Immigration

    Jhumpa Lahiri and Hari Kunzru Reflect on America’s Immigration Crisis

    By Literary Hub  July 3, 2019
    Travel Writing

    Odessa in Decay: Romantic, Tragic

    By Caroline Eden  July 3, 2019
    Immigration

    The Togolese “Fixer” Who Helps Immigrants Play the U.S. Visa Lottery

    By Charles Piot  July 3, 2019
    The Hub

    How did Walmart end up promoting Hitler’s Mein Kampf?

    By Dan Sheehan  July 2, 2019
    The Hub

    How Jeff and Ann VanderMeer picked stories for their new Big Book of Classic Fantasy.

     July 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Actually good news: translation publisher Deep Vellum is expanding.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 2, 2019
    Nature Writing

    The Life-Changing Magic of Mushroom Hunting in Central Park

    By Long Litt Woon  July 2, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

    By Barbara Bourland  July 2, 2019
    Whitman

    Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

    By Ted Widmer  July 2, 2019
    Fishing

    My White Whale Was a 50-Pound Fish in Martha’s Vineyard

    By Janet Messineo  July 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Re-Enter Sandman: Neil Gaiman’s beloved series will finally be a (very expensive) Netflix show

    By Dan Sheehan  July 1, 2019
    Obsessions

    On Peter Matthiessen’s Lifelong Fascination with Bigfoot

    By Jeff Wheelwright  July 1, 2019
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