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    By Lit Hub Photography  May 19, 2017
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    Growing Up a Refugee, Confronting Shame and Sensationalism

    By Pajtim Statovci  May 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your Hometown is the Last Place to Accept Who You Are

    By Kait Heacock  May 19, 2017
    Where to Go

    Reading Across America: A Haven for Writers of the African Diaspora

    By Sanderia Faye  May 18, 2017
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    The Writing Workshop That Runs Itself

    By Ben Dolnick  May 18, 2017
    Design

    Bookselling in the 21st Century: When Your Store is a Photo Op

    By Katie Orphan  May 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    The One Thing That Might Save America From Its Terrible Diet

    By Michael Ruhlman  May 17, 2017
    Where to Go

    The American Writers Museum Opens in Chicago

    By Jenna Sauber  May 17, 2017
    Politics

    The Tallest Man in Ramallah

    By Michael Chabon  May 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    From The Satanic Verses to Scientology, Pamela Paul’s Foray in Bookselling

    By Pamela Paul  May 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Fulfilling the Promise to Visit My Late Lover’s Parents

    By Fenton Johnson  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    What’s So Bad About Being Bored at Work?

    By Mary Mann  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

    By Mary V. Dearborn  May 16, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Songs, Short Stories, and Sophocles

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Fine Art of Cheating in Baseball

    By Terry McDermott  May 15, 2017
    Events

    A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  May 15, 2017
    History

    The Canonization of Dylan Thomas

    By Bernard Schwartz  May 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    What is Money, Anyway?

    By Pascal Bruckner  May 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    In Motherhood, I Became a Fire-breathing Female Monster

    By Marianne Leone  May 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Mother and her Trans Son on Finding Their New Middle Ground

    By Donald Collins and Mary Collins  May 12, 2017
    News

    The Week in Literary Film and TV News

    By Emily Temple  May 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    On Oaxaca, Early Pregnancy, and Motherlands

    By Sarah Menkedick  May 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Writing About Charlie Brown Feels Like Writing About Myself

    By Chuck Klosterman  May 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Boxer and The Professor: Friendships of the Lost Generation

    By James McGrath Morris  May 11, 2017
    Politics

    Boxing Through Trauma During the Afghan Civil War

    By Qais Akbar Omar  May 11, 2017
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