Lit Hub Daily: December 16, 2024
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- Which literary stories made the biggest impact in your group chat this year? Here’s our roundup of the top 50. | Lit Hub News
- Palestinian stories and voices tracing a long, painful year in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
- Gender, agency and freedom on both sides of the photographer’s lens. | Lit Hub Art
- Just in time for those holiday family gatherings, here’s a less meta, less rule-based way to approach difficult conversations. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Read an excerpt of Marguerite Sheffer’s The Man in the Banana Trees. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “She was a contrarian yet utterly original, warm yet suffered no fools, wrote children’s books but could curse up a storm…” Kevin Young remembers Nikki Giovanni. | The New Yorker
- For all your holiday book-buying needs: Twelve queer-owned bookstores to support. | Electric Literature
- “At every significant change in the medium, poets seemed to be the ones doing the first experiments. Poets were doing R&D.” Zoë Hitzig and Ryan Ruby in conversation. | The Baffler
- Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili considers the “failure of both imagination and of historical evidence, to only center Haiti in crisis.” | Adi Magazine
- Sadie Stein makes the case for telling a stranger they look great. | The New York Times
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