Lit Hub Daily: October 5, 2021

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TODAY: In 1900, Bing Xin, who wrote for young readers and was one of the most prolific Chinese writers of the 20th century, is born.   

Also on Lit Hub: Curtis Bunn on America’s repeated history of racism and police brutality • A poem by Marcio Junqueira, trans. by Johnny Lorenz • Read from Miriam Toews’ latest novel, Fight Night 



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