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“What better than a little donkey upon which to project my wonderings?” Martha Cooley reflects on emigrating to Venice in her mid-sixties… and befriending a little asinella. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 50 best fictional dragons (yes, fictional), to mark the return of House Targaryen. | Lit Hub
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Susan Choi on first drafts, strokes of luck, and powering through. | Lit Hub Craft
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How Bruce Lee became an international icon—and what his trajectory can tell us about our contemporary world. | Lit Hub Biography
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Math for the masses: G. Arnell Williams recommends books that give mathematics its due. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emma Donoghue, Sigmund Freud, and T. S. Eliot all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Nick Kolakowski with five key works of motorcycle noir. | CrimeReads
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Brian Michael Murphy explores the sinister history of libraries fumigating “foreign” books. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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“Since childhood, Murata has been troubled by an intense and sometimes painful effort to be an ‘ordinary earthling.’” Thu-Huong Ha profiles Sayaka Murata. | Wired
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Nate Rogers tells the story of missing “Hotel California” lyric sheets—featuring rare book dealers, Nabokov’s estate, and the “relentless” Don Henley. | Los Angeles Times
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If you’ve never read Stephen King, Neil McRobert recommends some good places to start. | The Guardian
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In praise of Mercer Street Books in Seattle, a neighborhood staple since 2009. | The Seattle Times
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Samantha Mann talks about writing a memoir of queer childhood. | LARB
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Jessamine Chan walks us through the process of getting her book published—from first draft to Today show appearance. | The New York Times
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The poet Dean Young has died at 67. | Copper Canyon Press
Also on Lit Hub: Carrie Jenkins on love and polyamory • What to read before and after Loving Highsmith • Read from Robert Freeman Wexler’s latest novel, The Silverberg Business
