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- Leah Dieterich on how writing ad copy about a stoned puppet shaped her voice as a memoirist. Yes, a stoned puppet. | Lit Hub
- Grieving with pets, feminist fiction, top-shelf noir, and more panels you won’t want to miss at this weekend’s Brooklyn Book Festival. | Lit Hub
- Will you read this preview of fall’s political and social science nonfiction books if we promise only one of them is explicitly about Trump? | Lit Hub
- Good things come from small presses. Like these 10 books, recommended by Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore. | Lit Hub
- “Don’t mess with me, or I will swing my dead father over my head and beat you senseless with him.” Devin Galaudet travels to Spain with his father’s ashes. | Lit Hub
- An investigation into the real Lolita, a history of voter suppression in America, and the end of Knausgaard’s struggle all feature among our Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- 20 quotes that prove that Agatha Christie was actually the most noir author who ever lived, in honor of her birthday this Saturday. | Crime Reads
- “As any child author can testify, you can’t begin until you’ve got the map right.” David Mitchell on his literary cartography. | The New Yorker
- The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is cutting off inmates’ access to volunteer-run free books programs like Books Through Bars. | The Philadelphia Inquirer
- “I write from a place of pure, abject desperation and self-doubt, to be totally honest!” An interview with Sharlene Teo. | Electric Literature
- Not such a joke after all? Bob Woodward’s Fear sold more than 750,000 copies in its first day on the stands. | The Guardian
- “As worldly as she was, she couldn’t conceive of someone like me growing up in the suburbs, just like her.” Vanessa Hua on subverting the Chinese immigrant story. | The Paris Review
- Take a video tour of the secret apartment located in Manhattan’s Fort Washington Library. | Atlas Obscura
- “I read lying about in my apartment, on the train, while eating out alone—there are so many places perfect for slipping into another world.” Get ready for Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival with Freshwater author Akwaeke Emezi. | Brooklyn Book Festival
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