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- “Taken as a whole, her work forms a constellation of stories about immigration and all its complexities under the motif of survival.” Read a profile of Laila Lalami. | Lit Hub
- Emily Temple reveals the life-changing magic of 10 Things I Hate About You. | Lit Hub
- “I decided the idea of being blocked is one gigantic fear too many.” Nathan Englander on writing and worrying. | Lit Hub
- Is it possible to dramatize the dull and cyclical? Maddie Crum on narratives of burnout in the gig economy. | Lit Hub
- “Your anger is a kind of madness, because you set a high price on worthless things.” Did Seneca write a treatise on anger in response to unstable leaders? | Lit Hub
- On writing about a fictional massacre as a real one happens in your community. | Lit Hub
- Carol Goodman leads a lamplit tour through the birth and resurrection of the gothic thriller, from Jane Eyre to Gone Girl. | CrimeReads
- Nathan Englander recommends five books on transformations, from The Handmaid’s Tale to The Underground Railroad. | Book Marks
- “I didn’t always know what we were doing”: On poet Carolyn Forché’s new memoir, What You Have Heard is True, and witnessing political tragedy. | The Atlantic
- Is George Saunders haunted by the ghost of his Catholic upbringing? | First Things
- Turns out, procrastination isn’t about laziness (though how that information helps you when you’re elbows-deep in avoiding your novel, we couldn’t say). | The New York Times
- “How am I any more interesting than any other random person on the street? I just don’t get it.” A. N. Devers profiles Sally Rooney. | Elle
- Take a sneak peek inside the graphic adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, with art by Renée Nault. | io9
- “The boys rooted for Griff, even though he was a miserable bully who jimmied and pried at their weaknesses and made up weaknesses if he couldn’t find any.” Read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s next novel, The Nickel Boys. | The New Yorker
- “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a nation is in a condition of civilization, that it is in a great measure the business of its leaders to encourage the habits of virtue.” Okay, so robot authors aren’t Jane Austen…yet. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: On the New Books Network, Tade Thompson and Rob Wolf talk alien invasion, small town insurrection, and the never-ending fight for resources • On being black in Appalachia: A response to J.D. Vance • Are tech giants the new superpowers? • Read a story from Amy Hempel’s new collection
