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“My love of life is tentative so I write to ensure my survival.” The late Jim Harrison’s writing philosophy. | Lit Hub Writing Life
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Luke Mogelson discusses right-wing militants and how “the MAGA movement is just the latest iteration of a current in American culture.” | Lit Hub Politics
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Elaine Fox explores the science of intuition. | Lit Hub Science
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“Even the writer/mother with the best-furnished ego has to stop from time to time to pick up Lego pieces from the floor.” Begoña Gómez Urzaiz on Muriel Spark and the competing demands of career and childcare. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“Big Little Lies / Wow, No Thank You.” Read Annette Dauphin Simon’s book spine poetry. | Lit Hub Poetry
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The magic of creative constraints: Five writers share the tricks that unlocked their books. | Lit Hub Craft
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Spanish novelist Javier Marías has died at 70. | The Guardian
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Katherine VanArendonk talks to Kate Beaton about her new graphic memoir Ducks: Two Year in the Oil Sands. | Vulture
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“The impulse to create cheap thrills is timeless.” Laurence Senelik considers the art of Shakespearean death. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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What’s the best way to climb out of a book slump? | The Star Tribune
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Monica Burton recommends ten of this fall’s best books about food. | Eater
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What can parents do when schools ban books in their child’s district? | The Washington Post
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These five books explore the power partnerships of old Hollywood. | The Wall Street Journal
Also on Lit Hub: The danger (and hope) of a first year in America • Writing the story of Saint Patrick’s Battalion • Read from Scholastique Mukasonga’s newly translated novel, Kibogo (tr. Mark Polizzotti)
