Lit Hub Daily: May 15, 2017

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TODAY: In 1711,  Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism” is published anonymously. 

And on Literary Hub: Crime and the city: Sleaze, transience, and edginess in Brighton · A report from One Story‘s 15th-anniversary Deb Ball · An excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s novel, Florence in Ecstasy

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