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- Rick Bass on hunting, Hemingway, and “death, and learning closure as a writer.” | Lit Hub Craft
- When fictionalizing trauma can mean “releasing myself from the negative feelings I’d held onto for three decades.” | Lit Hub
- Lauryn Hill took home five Grammy Awards in 1999. Nadirah Simmons has a few more for her. | Lit Hub
- These paperback releases are here for February. | Lit Hub
- “Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices:” Olivia Rutigliano on Paul Giamatti. | Lit Hub
- “I continue to believe—I must believe—that telling and reading stories that center Muslims and Islamic history can help counter some of these bigotries.” A Muslim historical fiction reading list. | Lit Hub
- “It was sad, like when you see a clown smoking a cigarette before the circus.” Read from Jennifer Belle’s new novel, Swanna in Love. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “We don’t need to be set apart by the language of capitalism.” On books, status, and commodity. | Reactor
- “It’s also important to see where trans/queer books have long been banned… and how the slow violence of structuring neglect has always constituted life for so many trans/queer people who live against the promises of white LGBT politics.” Sohini Chatterjee interviews Eric Stanley about anti-trans and queer violence. | Public Books
- Lidija Haas considers Lucy Sante’s revelatory new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name. | The New Republic
- Helen Garner revisits her early encounters with Tender Is the Night, a novel “way too enjoyable to be literature.” | The Paris Review
- Sarene Leeds asks if Feud: Capote vs. the Swans truly captures the writer’s life. | Vulture
- “There are a lot of discussions about how we can solve the climate crisis, and how we can solve economic inequality. But these measures are not properly working.” Kohei Saito discusses degrowth. | Grist
