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A rose for Mr. Darcy: When it comes to Jane Austen and The Bachelor, it’s all about the marriage plot. | Lit Hub TV
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Viniyanka Prasad, founder of The Word: A Storytelling Sanctuary, on the importance of creating communities for marginalized writers. | Lit Hub
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Sean Michaels recounts collaborating with AI to write a novel: “What will we do with its work when it is good? How will we reckon then with what this tool can do?” | Lit Hub Tech
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Nikhil Goyal on the ongoing struggle for American public education. | Lit Hub
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Thirty years after Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Andrew Quintana considers how the storied director found his match in Edith Wharton. | Lit Hub
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Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, Stephen King’s Holly, and Maria Bamford’s Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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“Imagine, say, a round, full-sized cheesecake.” Read a new (very) short story from Haruki Murakami. | The New Yorker
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Elif Batuman searches for a half-remembered Proust quote, with the assistance of AI. | The Guardian
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Read a profile of Paul Yamazaki, who has worked at the legendary City Lights bookstore for 53 years and will receive the National Book Foundation’s prestigious Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community this fall. | Los Angeles Times
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The trouble with the “favor economy”: Sophie Vershbow dives into the broken book blurbing system. | Esquire
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“The place had no epicureal ambitions. It had no politics. There were few facts available online, and you didn’t receive an address until the night before.” Kathleen Alcott visits Stoned Pizza, which is exactly what it sounds like. | The Baffler
Also on Lit Hub: Get a sneak peek of Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s Graphic Novel, Roaming • Two poems by Jesse Nathan • Read from Ariel Dorfman’s latest novel, Suicide Museum
