Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2021

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TODAY: In 1915, short story writer and novelist Jean Stafford (here, in between Robert Lowell and Peter Taylor) is born. 

Also on Lit Hub: Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler recommends novels about the inner lives on Black women • John Brandon on the origins of his Florida Man novel • Read a story from Jeffrey Ford’s latest collection, Big Dark Hole



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