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In the latest installment of The Longest Year: 2020+, Brandon Taylor considers how Thomas Dworzak captured our idle moments, unperformed expressions, and strange tensions on Zoom. | Lit Hub Photography
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“Until recently, I had no idea that my life was in desperate need of a Swedish artist born in 1862.” Why Patrick Allington can’t stop thinking about Hilma af Klint. | Lit Hub Art
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Jen Thorp breaks down the messy and often confusing realm of so-called “public data.” | Lit Hub Tech
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“Baldwin wanted us to confront the loveless character of our lives, the prison of our myths, and the illusion of what we take to be ‘safety.’” Eddie S. Glaude Jr. rereads Nothing Personal. | Lit Hub
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Laura Dave on process, writerly affirmations, and Bruce Springsteen as inspiration. | Lit Hub Questionnaires
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In search of a living pterodactyl: T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre trace the divisive history of flying cryptids. | Lit Hub
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Sophie Cousins calls for mountaineering literature “beyond the image of a colonial, stereotypical white male climbing in far-flung ‘exotic’ places.” | Lit Hub
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“In the country of grief, none of us speaks the same language.” Carol Smith on finding a lexicon beyond words after unimaginable loss. | Lit Hub
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Parul Sehgal on Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT Up New York, Sam Byers on Rachel Cusk’s exquisite cruelty, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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L.R. Dorn on Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the origins of literary America’s true crime obsession. | CrimeReads
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“The Eleventh Hour, I Spy, Where’s Waldo?, Magic Eye: I wanted all books to make me feel the way these did when my whole body and brain lurched with the click of visual recognition.” Elissa Washuta on world-opening possibilities of picture books. | The Paris Review
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Jason Reynolds, Marc Brown, and Mo Willems show off their literary treasures on Antiques Roadshow. | Publishers Weekly
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“It as if the disparate parts of her life—the public-policy part, the nerdy, abstruse-topic part and the popular-culture-consuming part—are finally coalescing.” Read a profile of Stacey Abrams. | The New York Times
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This is how Death, Sex & Money podcast host and author Anna Sale mastered the art of interviewing. | Bitch Media
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Lilly Dancyger discusses her just-released mixed-media memoir and why it took over a decade to complete. | Ploughshares
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How Jhumpa Lahiri turned toward Italian, began translating her own work, and embraced translation’s “radical state of change.” | BuzzFeed
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“Your body knows when you spend too much time trying to see into a space where you physically cannot go.” Marie Mutsuki Mockett recounts her mother’s last days. | The Cut
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