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Lit Hub Daily: October 4, 2023

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TODAY: In 1897, Jiro Osaragi is born.

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on the latest installment of The Journey That Matters, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s decision to make many of her characters people of color. | Lit Hub
“I think that over the decades the thing that’s surprised me the most is how no one ever asks about a book’s dedication.” Jonathan Lethem really wants you to ask about his dedication page. | Lit Hub Craft
Was the Planet of the Apes franchise the “scariest, ballsiest, most breathtaking essay on racial conflict in film history”? | Lit Hub Film & TV
“The choices historians make—what to write about, what counts as evidence and how to interpret it—are inevitably shaped by the world around us. African American history is no different.” On the hidden story of Black history and Black lives before the Civil Rights Movement. | Lit Hub History
Freda Love Smith on the difficulty of narrating her own audiobook. | Lit Hub Memoir

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