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“If there is to be a livable and shared future on our planet, it will be a future offline.” Jonathan Crary on technology amid late capitalism. | Lit Hub Tech
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A reprieve from all ghastly things: Howard Norman reads Kathryn Davis’ Aurelia, Aurélia. | Lit Hub Criticism
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G.R. Macallister wonders, where are all the matriarchies in fiction? | Lit Hub
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On Jeff Bezos’ awkward journey to Hollywood (or, when he lectured his team about the hero’s journey). | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Nicole Yunger Halpern recommends books that capture the wonder of Victorian science, an era when the world felt bigger. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“Everyone I met, French or foreign: we were all struggling to communicate.” Amanda Bestor-Siegal considers how losing the tether of language helped her process grief. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Emily Van Duyne reflects on teaching about rape, as a rape survivor, on a campus with a rape crisis. | Lit Hub
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“Your publicist is the person who meets the world on your behalf.” Ann Patchett, in praise of her longtime publicist, Jane Beirn. | Oprah Daily
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An ode to worn-out books and the reasons we keep them. | Star Tribune
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How the New York Public Library is preserving the sounds of the early 20th century. | Atlas Obscura
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Ocean Vuong on his reading life and where he likes to read: “anywhere, literally, except maybe not a techno party.” | The New York Times
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Olga Tokarczuk talks about transgressive literature, which “comes with an inherent risk of not meeting the expectations of the majority of readers who may not want to be surprised.” | The Seattle Times
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Exploring the legacy of Lesya Ukrainka, the beloved Ukrainian writer and activist. | JSTOR Daily
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Recommended reading from Red Planet Books and Comics, the world’s only Native American comic shop. | Hyperallergic
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The newest issue of The Margins features Jenny Xie, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and 19 other poets with pieces inspired by the Japanese genre. | AAWW
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Also on Lit Hub: Sanaë Lemoine on a tumultuous love and chocolate cake • A poem by Roger Reeves from his new collection, Best Barbarian • Read from Tove Ditlevsen’s newly translated story collection, The Trouble with Happiness (tr. Michael Favala Goldman)
