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    Vermont’s Lt. Gov. is doing a reading tour of banned books, moving him to the top of our Lt. Gov list.

    By Janet Manley  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection, First Love.

    By Literary Hub  August 16, 2023
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    Announcing the inaugural cohort of National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.

    By Literary Hub  August 16, 2023
    AI

    “I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them”: When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection

    By Brent Katz  August 16, 2023
    Food Memoirs

    The Memoir That Found Me: Michaele Weissman on Food, Marriage, and Identity

    By Michaele Weissman  August 16, 2023
    Cleaning House

    On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

    By Lewis Buzbee  August 16, 2023
    Love

    Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great’s Animosity Towards Desire

    By Ron Rosenbaum  August 16, 2023
    Children's Lit

    Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

    By Ethan Warren  August 16, 2023
    Authors in the Tent

    Alex Segura on Spider-Man 2099, secret identities, and writing comics

    By Authors in the Tent  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Now AI is helping ban books.

    By Janet Manley  August 15, 2023
    The Hub

    How meme culture changed comedy writing.

    By Janet Manley  August 15, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Wei Tchou’s experimental memoir Little Seed.

    By Literary Hub  August 15, 2023
    Indictment

    Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

    By Matthew Teague  August 15, 2023
    Asian American Literature

    Reading—and Writing—Like an Asian American

    By David Shih  August 15, 2023
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    How to Design a Cover for the Emotional Center of a Novel

    By Math Monahan  August 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Ece Temelkuran on Social Media’s Failure to Change the World

    By Keen On  August 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Andrew Hill on the Best Business Books of 2023

    By Keen On  August 15, 2023
    The Hub

    Here’s another way for authors and publishers to help in Maui.

    By Janet Manley  August 14, 2023
    Toys

    What It Was Like to Design for Barbie

    By Carol Spencer  August 14, 2023
    Illness

    My Mother’s Clocks: On Losing Time with Dementia

    By Jennifer C. Nash  August 14, 2023
    Photography

    Who Really Invented the Selfie?

    By Matt Colquhoun  August 14, 2023
    Life After Prison

    How Systemic Barriers Keep the Formerly Incarcerated From Rebuilding Their Lives

    By Lara Love Hardin  August 14, 2023
    Money

    The Other Side of Money: On the Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

    By Bette Adriaanse  August 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Kathryn Cramer Brownell on Whether MTV Killed Democracy

    By Keen On  August 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Lahaina Public Library stands damaged among the wreckage of Maui’s fires.

    By Janet Manley  August 11, 2023
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