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  • For Fiction/Non/Fiction, Ron Charles and Shanthi Sekaran talk to Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan about censorship, obscenity, and the language of immigration. | Literary Hub
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  • “People might take it more seriously than just thinking: ‘Some lunatic’s got a warehouse full of magazines.’” Inside the Hyman Archive, the largest private collection of magazines in the world. | The New York Times
  • Charlotte Shane on Lynne Segal’s recently reissued memoir Making Trouble, “a refutation of today’s mainstream feminism, not only explicitly but—more powerfully—implicitly.” | The Nation
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  • “I have needed all the genres I have used, and, as a sort of common denominator, I have been the same person with the same concerns from one genre to another.” An interview with Wendell Berry. | Library of America
  • “Poetry, or Anthropologie sales rack? Is there a difference?” Soraya Roberts on the badness of Instapoetry. | The Baffler
  • Was beloved Scottish bard Robert Burns a “Weinsteinian sex pest”? Poet and critic Liz Lochhead alleged as much on BBC radio, drawing agreement from one Burns biographer and a rebuttal from other Burns scholars. | The Guardian
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