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• “I know for certain that when I write in Chinese, landscape comes first.” Xiaolu Guo on translating the self. | Lit Hub Translation
• What you should read next: here are the best reviewed books of the week. | Lit Hub Criticism
• “When Johnny Cash kissed me…” Louisa Young on how the country music icon changed her life. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy are among the books shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford “winner of winners” award. | The Guardian
• Should you read that divorce novel? We have a quiz. | The Hub
• The owner of the online bookstore Sistah Scifi has launched an Afrofuturist book vending machine. | WBUR
• “I did feel a lot of uncertainty after winning the prize… I worried that people would not be reliable about telling me if something I wrote was no good.” Ten years later, Eleanor Catton, the youngest person to win the Booker Prize, talks about her new novel. | The OC Register
• Libro.fm is expanding into the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. | Publishers Weekly
