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- Anti-establishment and non-conformist, 13 punk (as f*ck) writers you should know. | Lit Hub
- Katharine Kilalea on the most dangerous building in South Africa. | Lit Hub
- Kristen Arnett gives you the dos and don’ts of supporting your local library. | Lit Hub
- “My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors.” Brandon Taylor on grieving for a mother he never fully knew. | Lit Hub
- “I think it’s a near-sacred duty to take reading seriously, and to really engage with what the author’s trying to do.” An interview with Tor.com staff writer and critic Leah Schnelbach. | Book Marks
- Nina Barrett on the infamous Leopold and Loeb case and its legacy in popular culture. | CrimeReads
- “It is, to me, the fundamental desire of a writer to understand the terrain in which they write.” Arundhati Roy and Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- How many books have you read this year? On Goodreads and “the crushing weight of literary FOMO.” | WIRED
- “It is like reading the best kind of philosophy—steely, searching, brisk.” Lorrie Moore on Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy. | New York Review of Books
- How Jérôme Ruillier’s graphic novel The Strange captures the anxiety of living undocumented and “the way an immigrant’s story of departure and arrival is rarely straightforward.” | The Atlantic
- “For a lot of the people who are into watching BookTube videos, it feels like taking a recommendation from a friend.” On the YouTubers who want to make reading a less solitary activity. | The New York Times
- The headlines are full of Bigfoot erotica thanks to an incident involving Virginia congressional candidate Denver Riggleman. Michael Schaub wonders, “Will bestseller lists be next?” | Los Angeles Times
- “I imagine the weight of her trauma in my palm, opaque and heavy.” Crystal Hana Kim on her grandmother. | The Paris Review
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