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- “We are so hungry. We dance all day long.” Phyllis Grant on what ballet does to your relationship with food. | Lit Hub
- Say what you will about capitalism—it really moves a plot along. David Moloney offers a reading list of bad jobs in literature. | Lit Hub
- ON THE VBC: Michael Arceneaux talks emotional debt and keeping your joy, on Sheltering • On Rekindled, Emerson Whitney in conversation with Arisa White and Michelle Tea. | Lit Hub
- “Last chance” tourism treats climate change as a spectacle, and destroys the very places people want to save. | Lit Hub
- “The apple tree, I surmise, has been trimmed just enough. I’ve done what I can to prevent harm.” Kerri Arsenault on life in a pandemic spring. | Lit Hub
- Pwaangulongii Dauod’s portrait of the drowsy, sunlit world of Kaduna City, a half-completed story. | Lit Hub
- “Real, lasting change in the publishing industry can only come about when the industry itself asks this question: who is missing?” Amanda Leduc on creating accessibility in virtual literary spaces. | Lit Hub
- “The Automat”: A poem by Nicholas Christopher. | Lit Hub
- Steven Wright introduces us to seven fictional con artists who don’t just target individuals—they swindle the whole darn town. | CrimeReads
- A month of literary listening: AudioFile’s best audiobooks of April. | Book Marks
- Abdelouahab Aissaoui became the first Algerian to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. | The Hub
- If you need to rediscover the element of surprise in your life, here are 14 literary subscription boxes you might want to sign up for. | Bustle
- “Only The Secret Garden has held my attention. Only The Secret Garden takes place in a universe I recognize.” One writer on the book that’s getting her through the quarantine. | The Paris Review
- Comic book creators are launching an effort to save stores hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. | The New York Times
- Bonnie Tsui on writing about the human relationship to water and transformative experience of swimming. | Alta Online
- After Republican Senator Thom Tillis raised questions about the legality of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library, its founder Brewster Kahle defended the organization. | Publishers Weekly
- If you haven’t given up on homeschooling, here are the best and worst workbooks for kids. | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Writing about dementia means confronting readers’ fears • With the Arhuaco on the sacred Magdalena River • Read an excerpt from Roy Jacobsen’s novel The Unseen (trans. by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw).
