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“The door is not open yet, but it is ajar.” Shirley Chisholm on why she ran for president. | Lit Hub Politics
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WHEN I’M NOT WRITING: Bruna Dantas Lobato on relearning how to play and the discovering the intricate joy of miniatures. | Lit Hub
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Behind the creation of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” penned by Stevie Nicks: “It’s a poetic fuck-you, but it’s still a fuck-you.” | Lit Hub Music
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Just passing through: on Milton Gendel’s seven-decade Roman holiday. | Lit Hub Photography
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A brief history of eugenics, a defining idea of the 20th century. | Lit Hub History
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“It is no longer possible for me to deny that the man could be, epistolarily speaking, a bit of a drip.” T.S. Eliot expert Dr. Michelle Alexis Taylor weighs in on the poet’s letters. | The Fence
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“He is one of the theater’s greatest listeners.” Chloé Cooper Jones on the work of Will Arbery. | The New York Times Magazine
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Researchers claim to have found the oldest document written in Basque—a 2,100-year-old hand-shaped bronze plate. | El País
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A beginner’s guide to Marcel Proust. | The Guardian
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“If the book industry is a walled garden, the site is a ladder.” Erin Somers considers the future of book publishing post-Twitter. | The Atlantic
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J.E. Smyth remembers Mary C. McCall Jr., a powerhouse during Hollywood’s golden age. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Michael Parker on worshipping water, in life and fiction • Five poems by Peter Cole • Read from Marvel Moreno’s newly translated novel, December Breeze (tr. Charlotte Coombe and Isabel Adey)
