Lit Hub Daily: May 17, 2023

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TODAY: In 1873, Dorothy Richardson, author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 novels, is born. She was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. (Pictured here with husband, illustrator Alan Odle.)  

Also on Lit Hub: Nine utopian books to deprogram our brains • Obsessing over UFO videos—or, when screens helpfully absorb our anxieties • Read from Sarah K. Jackson’s debut novel, Not Alone

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