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- Don’t be a dick. And other pretty accurate—and specific—pieces of writing advice from Colum McCann. | Literary Hub
- 15 books you should definitely read this April. | Literary Hub
- Catherine Buni on the power and importance of getting names right (and, of course, not making fun of them). | Literary Hub
- “I loved Gatsby, even if it didn’t love me back.” Stephanie Powell Watts on reading Fitzgerald as a young woman of color. | Literary Hub
- Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “whose defiant verse inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight against Stalinism,” has died at 83. | The New York Times
- “That care that goes into it? I think I write for that, too. I write for the care.” An interview with Durga Chew-Bose. | Hazlitt
- Star Trek star George Takei (who is not running for congress) is writing a graphic novel about his experience in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. | Vulture
- “The word murder feels like a bad word, like something to be ashamed of.” An excerpt from Leah Carrol’s Down City (and a Q&A with the author). | The Guardian
- Native Realities Press has rebooted Jon Proudstar’s Tribal Force, the first all-Native superhero comic, which released just one issue in 1996 before its publisher went out of business. | NPR
- “How do you construct something that stays true to its autobiographical experience, in this case, but it feels spacious?” An interview with Maggie Nelson. | The Cut
- In praise of the prolific Guy Davenport, who “was both of those things to which the modifier ‘Southern’ most swiftly attaches, an eccentric and a gentleman.” | Oxford American
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