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How language shapes emotion across cultures. | Lit Hub Science
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Baynard Woods reflects on how writing a book forced him to confront the many lies of whiteness. | Lit Hub Memoir
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How do you begin to write a novel about 6th-century Londinium, the “darkest corner of the Dark Ages”? | Lit Hub History
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Jessica Sequeira considers the overlap between musical interpretation and literary translation. | Lit Hub Music
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Turns out, we were almost blessed with a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons crossover. | Lit Hub
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“Part of the joy of reading—its essential fiber, if you will—is the way it can disturb us, disrupting our preconceptions and easy pieties.” David L. Ulin’s ode to “inappropriate books.” | Los Angeles Times
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Liska Jacobs on the transformative anonymity of hotels, our search for companionship, and chain mail masks. | Esquire
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“By writing stories, we as doctors aim to teach others about our patients while learning about ourselves.” Jerome Groopman considers the intersection of medicine and narrative. | The New Yorker
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Are we in the middle of a golden age of Texas fiction? | Texas Monthly
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“Lamming never lets readers forget that within that one man—as within all of us—is a boiling multitude.” John Plotz remembers the great Barbadian novelist, essayist, and activist George Lamming. | Public Books
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Maureen Corrigan recommends books to help with plane travel. | NPR
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“If a portrait that I’m writing about somebody doesn’t induce a little bit of discomfort in them, I would almost feel that I hadn’t done my job.” Patrick Radden Keefe talks about investigative writing. | ProPublica
Also on Lit Hub: How Final Fantasy VII taught me to write • A reading list to understand Harvey Weinstein’s twisted world • Read from Felicia Berliner’s debut novel, Shmutz
