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“I’ve been baffled by why my esteemed colleagues are so incurious about the place on the internet where readers are buying a metric fuckton of books.” Leigh Stein enumerates the undersung joys of BookTok. | Lit Hub
- Ann Beattie wonders what Donald Barthelme would have made of the Spy Balloon. | Lit Hub
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How Huey P. Newton became an American revolutionary. | Lit Hub Politics
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Ten horror movies about black-white race relations not named Get Out… that enjoyed varying degrees of success. | Lit Hub Film & TV
- Why Harlem? Bo McMillan considers the site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 years later. | Lit Hub History
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Exciting updates from the HarperCollins picket line: a tentative deal is being made. | NPR
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“Is technology our collective fairy godmother?” Jennifer Wilson considers dating apps as plot device in contemporary fiction. | The New York Times
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Maggie Neal Doherty on a forgotten climate history classic that Patagonia (!) is bringing back to life. | Los Angeles Times
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Chris Lehmann considers Pamela Paul’s latest op-ed, “What Liberals Can Learn from Ron DeSantis”—“a case study in the managerial incoherence of the disengaged liberal mind.” | The Nation
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Karen Russell talks to Adrienne Westenfeld about writing for the stage, mythological retellings, and hopeful speculative fiction. | Esquire
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Authors and publishers discuss the necessity of the newly announced Women’s prize for nonfiction. | The Guardian
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