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“The times when I’m happiest while writing are those times when I’ve invented a problem or a complication that needs solving.” Kelly Link on the transformative prompt. | Lit Hub Craft
- Rafael Frumkin examines Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and womanhood-as-performance. | Lit Hub Art
- “Virgula / there is eternity in height, there is eternity / in hanging from a height.” Read Sasja Janssen’s poem, “Virgula.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- A poem by Anthony Brian Smith, who “left behind him a huge community of loved ones that were lucky enough to enjoy his sweetness, talent and wit.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Linnea Axelsson on Scandinavia’s hidden history of indigenous oppression: “Sápmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away.” | Lit Hub History
- “At no time during the rehearsal visited by the reporter did Ralph Murtaugh ‘sashay across the stage.’” Calvin Trillin issues some very important journalistic corrections. | Lit Hub Humor
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- With new titles by Kelly Link, Calvin Trillin, Diane Oliver, Ed Zwick, and more, here are the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “What am I made of ? That’s not quite the question for the project, but it has arrived on my heart. How do I know what I am made of ?” Read from DéLana R. A. Dameron’s new novel, Redwood Court. | Lit Hub Fiction
- How one of the last Korean bookstores in Southern California has managed to survive. | Los Angeles Times
- Some Miami-Dade county public school parents were required to give written permission for their children to engage with the work of a black author. | The Guardian
- For fans of the sequential arts: Here’s a look at the world’s largest collection of comics. | Hyperallergic
- Leaked emails from the Hugo awards reveal that some authors were excluded from eligibility for producing work “of a sensitive political nature.” | Locus
- Not that we have to remind any of our readers of this, but: Don’t pick on public libraries. | The Nation
- “Swing it to one side, and it binds the novel to the world; swing it to the other, and it frees the novel from it.” Merve Emre considers novels that play with the idea of character types. | New York Review of Books
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