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- How to be a writer on social media: advice from Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Celeste Ng, and Adam M. Grant. | Literary Hub
- From Kafka to Plath, eight famous writers writing about not being able to write (#AmNotWriting). | Literary Hub
- Happy Birthday, Alice Munro! Tessa Hadley on listening to a 1990 recording of Munro reading her story, “Differently.” | Literary Hub
- Why are we so fixated with creepy doppelgangers? | Literary Hub
- Dystopia is realism: you can see the end of the world happening all around, if you just look. | Literary Hub
- A better metaphor for Israel-Palestine? Joshua Cohen talks to Karan Mahajan. | Literary Hub
- “Ballet seemed to give Zelda what she was seeking at the time—a mode of pure expression.” On Zelda Fitzgerald’s “frequently overlooked” obsession with ballet. | The New Yorker
- “I hate all this ‘writer’s tips’ business. Does anyone ever follow them?” Eimear McBride details a day in her writing life. | The Guardian
- In a seemingly interminable saga, Milo Yiannopoulos—after self-publishing his controversial book on July 4th—is suing Simon & Schuster for $10 million dollars. | Vulture
- “It kind of did feel like the end of the world, though not in the way I originally meant it.” Heidi Julavits visits Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty with her family. | The New York Times Magazine
- His hates were extravagant, his traumas ornate, his contradictions so vicious and monstrously magnified: Tobi Haslett on Chester B. Himes. | 4Columns
- “Life is short & the world is terrible. I know / no kind strangers in this country who aren’t / sisters a desert away…” A poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico | BuzzFeed Reader
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