Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2022

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TODAY: In 1961, Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy is published by Doubleday. 

Also on Lit Hub: Véronique Hyland’s reading list of literary “it” girls • The rich and secret life of a writer of reading guides • Read from Mike Meginnis’s latest novel, Drowning Practice



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