Lit Hub Daily: August 30, 2022

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TODAY: In 2006, Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 94.  

Also on Lit Hub: How to write a book without getting in your own way • From surfboards to seed corn, how society creates trends • Read from James Hannaham’s latest novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta



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