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Casey Plett wants to know: What does “community” really mean? | Lit Hub
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“True crime is storytelling. Like any form of literature, sometimes that storytelling is cliche.” Lindsay Hunter on why she loves true crime. | Lit Hub
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It’s another banner week for new books—here are 24 out today. | The Hub
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How Stephanie Land wrote her latest memoir in a month, and other insights from the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
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“I found it joyless to treat the local language as a pothole for expats to step around.” Why Naoise Dolan learned Italian for her book tour. | Lit Hub
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Drew Johnson muses on the kaleidoscopic experience of reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“Children’s literature conjures a realm where we can imagine—together—something better than what is.” Miriam Udel on reading to her son while the world is on fire. | New York Times
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Predicting the National Book Awards… with data. | Public Books
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“Jewish security, liberty, and dignity will not be achieved by pulverizing Palestinian buildings, individuals, and social structures.” Read Peter Cole’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. | The Yale Review
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Katie Yee talks to Weike Wang about humor, writing, and dog voices. | The Margins
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Two members of Moms for Liberty called the cops on a pair of school librarians over a YA fantasy novel. | The Daily Beast
Also on Lit Hub: Sigrid Nunez on the process of writing a pandemic novel • Salar Abdoh on where fiction ends and reality begins • Read from The Collected Stories of Dylan Thomas
