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Francine Prose on Jim McPherson, writers on their day jobs, the science of black holes, and more great writing published at Lit Hub dot com.
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“If the authentic test for a great novel is rereading, then Pride and Prejudice can rival any novel ever written.” The late Harold Bloom on the delights of Jane Austen’s beloved classic. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Jill Stoner on flying reindeer, swimming caribou, and the artificiality of borders in a world full of migrations. | Lit Hub
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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi recounts “trying to put silence into words” as she completed her book during the outbreak of Covid-19. | Lit Hub
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9 spine-tingling true crime relics sold in 2021. | CrimeReads
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Nikita Lalwani on the craft of eavesdropping (it’s not rude if you’re doing it for Art!). | Lit Hub Craft
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“He has nostalgia in its original form, as a sickness.” Patricia Lockwood on Karl Ove Knausgaard. | London Review of Books
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Dana Canedy considers the sorrow and joy of seeing the story of her greatest love adapted into a film. | The New York Times
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O Thiam Chin remembers seeing himself in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story as a queer teenager in Singapore. | Granta
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Amy Brady speaks to the founders of Flourish Fiction, “a platform for fictional stories about climate change that are optimistic, and solutions-oriented.” | Burning Worlds
Also on Lit Hub: The 8 best book covers of December • Finding Morocco in books and films • Read from Claire Messud’s latest novel, A Dream Life
