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“I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir
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McKayla Coyle recommends sapphic reads for every occasion (like if “you’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a hot, sad girl”). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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A spring bouquet, AKA the 13 best book covers of April. | Lit Hub Design
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Shubha Sunder on writing between India and Boston: “To be over here while writing about over there has been an exercise in defining who I am.” | Lit Hub
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“The dividing line between truth and nonsense isn’t always easy to discern.” Five Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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The hottest underground author in China? Japan’s Chizuko Ueno. | The Guardian
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Penguin Classics reveals how the canon gets made. | Penguin
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Librarians are fighting back: a New Jersey librarian is suing for defamation after residents complain of “pornographic” books. | NJ.com
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Lyz Lenz goes behind the scenes of that Tucker Carlson profile. | Men Yell At Me
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On Norman Mailer, whose letters “reveal a megalomaniacally ambitious young man congenitally prone to embellishment, unsound theorizing, and self-aggrandizing roleplay.” | The Baffler
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Tajja Isen on the Internet Archive Lawsuit, book bans, library budget cutbacks, and labor issues at major publishing houses. | The Walrus
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