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- Looking back the year in new poetry by Indigenous women: all six installments of the series curated by Natalie Diaz. | Lit Hub
- From grand thickety novels to hot port: what the Lit Hub staff is planning to read, watch, and drink over the holidays. | Lit Hub
- Remembering the great writers, editors, and literary advocates who died in 2018. | Lit Hub
- Nicholas Boggs talks to Annette Joseph-Gabriel about reissuing Little Man, Little Man, James Baldwin’s “adult book for children/children’s book for adults.” | Lit Hub
- Anna Burns’ Booker Prize-wining Milkman, a new thriller from Val McDermid, the story of Los Angeles in letters, and more all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
- What’s the most noir Christmas movie? It’s time to once and for all determine the answer to this age-old question. | CrimeReads
- “I don’t want to be the single story of the young, Asian-American woman writer.” Read a profile of Celeste Ng. | The New York Times
- “The voice in my head that says ‘Die, die, die’ is not a voice that encourages putting together a short story.” On the dangerous myth that suffering is necessary for creativity. | The Atlantic
- “I can’t take the suspense!”: Twelve Calvin and Hobbes comics for the holiday season. | Lit Reactor
- Kaveh Akbar “prescribes” poems for anxiety, hopelessness and unrequited love. | The Paris Review
- “It’s a cocktail, it’s a dessert; if deployed correctly, it’s a life-saving elixir.” Carmen Maria Machado on the many pleasures of eggnog. | The New Yorker
- The “Future Book” is here . . . but it’s not quite what we expected. On the oft-predicted death of print, the Kindle, email newsletters, new forms, and Denis Johnson. | WIRED
- A first edition of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way sold for $1.7 million last week, setting a new world record for French literature. | Blouin Artinfo
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