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“Even though every atom in my body told me opening a shop would be an economic failure, I’d hoped it would save us.” Kelly McMasters on starting a bookstore to save her marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir
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21 new books out today: Shakespeare! Eurovision! Revenge! | The Hub
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This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Stephen Buoro, Nicole Cuffy, Phillip Maciak, Hannah Pittard, and Bea Setton. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
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Connie Wang revisits an outing to Magic Mike Live… with her mother: “There was the not-insignificant chance that the two of us would get into actual trouble.” | Lit Hub Memoir
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Exclusion and confession: Fae Myenne Ng tells the story of her Chinese immigrant father’s “book of lies,” which helped him evade the Exclusion Act, and writing her own book of truths. | Lit Hub
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C.E. McGill on queerness, monstrosity, and Frankenstein. | CrimeReads
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Paul Greenberg on what it’s like to have teen haters. | The Atlantic
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What does it mean that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is getting into book publishing? | Tech Crunch
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Do great actors make great novelists? Esquire asks a question that we know the answer to. | Esquire
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A poetic response to Cy Twombly’s art. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Julian Tepper profiles David Mogentale, one of the last great “Jewish” deli waiters. | Tablet
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall speaks to The New York Times about refusing to remove racism references from her children’s book. | The New York Times
Also on Lit Hub: Ada Zhang on the complexity of capturing immigrants’ lives in fiction • Tracing the evolution of celebrity memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith • Read from (and listen to) Tom Hanks’s novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
