Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2022

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TODAY: In 1917, Nicomedes “Nick” Marquez Joaquin, named National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1976, is born.  

Also on Lit Hub: Why we turn to myths to untangle old problems • Does “because i said so” ever really work? • Read from Mieko Kawakami’s newly translated novel, All the Lovers in the Night (tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd)

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