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“Was I fair to Tracy Flick?” Tom Perrota talks to Emma Straub about Election, sexism, and his new novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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The sea, the forest, a six-foot desk: Lidia Yuknavitch describes her perfect writing spaces. | Lit Hub
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“So what if writing a Bigfoot book made me seem silly?” Journalist and memoirist Samantha Allen reflects on getting over her qualms about writing a “bonkers” debut novel. | Lit Hub
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Another round (of humanity): How bartending helped Wesley Straton write her novel. | Lit Hub
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Sarah Stodola breaks down how institutional neglect shaped Rockaway, Queens. | Lit Hub History
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“Quite simply, they weren’t a performance. They felt more akin to a confession.” What a letter captures in the age of social media. | Lit Hub
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“The novel has become an occasion to remember and resist, and hopefully to push for peace and healing in an increasingly militarized world.” Joseph Han discusses American Imperialism and the Korean Forever War. | Lit Hub Politics
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We need more crime novels in which women make reproductive choices. | CrimeReads
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Talya Zax recommends nine “animating, searching, and interrogative” group biographies. | The Atlantic
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Michele Filgate talks to Lidia Yuknavitch about her new novel, linear timelines, and the limits of language. | Los Angeles Times
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Marion Winik on the welcome revival of Bette Howland. | The Washington Post
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“Moderan is us. Bunch’s stories were his attempt to channel the existential anxieties of an empire that finally understood it could die.” Bijan Stephen on David R. Bunch’s Moderan. | Dirt
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“I suppose the stories that I like illuminate cruelty. Scenes that give warning about not attending to people’s inner worlds.” Katy Waldman interviews Marina Warner about myths, memoir, and abortion. | The New Yorker
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Dwyer Murphy on serendipity, how working as a litigator informed his writing, and why noir is a great genre with which to explore “the era of a person’s life in which youthful enthusiasms flicker out.” | Study Hall
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From Duluth to Decatur, these bookstores are helping in the fight for reproductive justice. | The Hub
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