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- Are you misusing these commonly confused words? Click here to find out how embarrassed you should be! | Lit Hub
- “There is a coercion of feeling around motherhood.” Sheila Heti, Meaghan O’Connell, Jessica Friedmann, Rumaan Alam, and Kim Brooks on motherhood and writing (part two). | Lit Hub
- When Byron, Shelley, Godwin, and Polidori created the first literary vampire and freaked themselves right out. | Lit Hub
- “I ended up shoving the gun in the bottom of a trash can.” Patrick Modiano on the night he (or someone like him) fled a Parisian crime scene. | Lit Hub
- “Our fears are always an acceptable topic—as long as they are understood as fears, and not as real life.” Molly Odintz looks at four sub-genres of crime fiction best thought of as horror. | CrimeReads
- John Banville on Anthony Powell, Meg Wolitzer on Barbara Kingsolver, Tommy Orange on Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and more Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- “I like things that give me the creeps.” Hermione Hoby profiles Shelley Jackson. | The New Yorker
- Poet Tony Hoagland has died at age 64. | The New York Times
- Jon Hamm, André Holland, and Maggie Siff are among the actors participating in a marathon reading of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America at the 92nd Street Y this Sunday. | Library of America
- Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is coming back, and this time he’s got friends. Here are the four comic book writers rebooting Sandman for a new generation. | The Guardian
- From in-depth reporting on the opioid crisis to a novel of 19th-century exploration. The American Library Association has revealed the six books on the Carnegie Medals shortlist. | American Libraries Magazine
- Jill Lepore on the Supreme Court, women in history textbooks, and our current “epistemological crisis”. | JSTOR
- ‘Tis the season—and T Kira Madden, Alexander Chee, Tananarive Due, and more have some nightmare fuel for you. | Medium
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