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Lost in the subject matter: Gerald Murnane rereads his first novel, Tamarisk Road, nearly 50 years later. | Lit Hub
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Why Twitter loves James Baldwin (and whether that’s a good thing). | Lit Hub
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A quiet reply to a life cut short: Elisha Cooper on coming to terms with what killed his brother. | Lit Hub Memoir
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When Anna Wintour wore Prada to an early screening of The Devil Wears Prada. | Lit Hub Biography
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Colin Barrett’s Homesickness, Ali Smith’s Companion Piece, and Monica Ali’s Love Marriage all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Joshua Prager highlights ten books on the history of the debate over abortion in the United States. | The New York Times
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What dinner will look like in 100 years, according to sci-fi authors. | Bon Appetit
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“The reality is that women aren’t killed by time-traveling serial killers; it’s our loved ones killing us.” Lauren Beukes discusses the television adaptation of her novel The Shining Girls. | Esquire
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“I think it’s time for me to get off this stage.” Don Winslow on why he’s decided to retire from writing and focus on advocacy work. | PBS NewsHour Weekend
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Hundreds of libraries across the country are offering free seeds and gardening education to help alleviate food insecurity. | Eater
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Hannah Natanson dives into the “banned book clubs” that teenagers are creating to resist book-banning policies. | The Washington Post
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Why don’t new revelations in political books come out sooner? | Business Insider
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“Hope without action is willful denial.” Rebecca Scherm on the climate crisis and writing about the near future. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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“I’m totally fascinated by the scolding relationship that culture has to daydreaming—and even the ways I’ve internalized some of that scolding.” Leslie Jamison and Heather Havrilesky discuss alternative lives. | Ask Polly
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The story behind Albuquerque’s Red Planet, the world’s only Native comic book shop. | The Nation
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Maayan Silver talks to Cree Myles, who created the Instagram @allwaysblack “to celebrate Black writers and the readers who love them.” | NPR
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Catherine Halley on the history of the New York School poets. | JSTOR Daily
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Kim Kelly looks into the many ways in which the publishing industry mistreats workers, and the recent wave of bookstore unions. | Teen Vogue
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Herman Hesse reflects on chestnut trees. | The Paris Review
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“I cannot consider death as anything but a removing from one room to another.” John Higgs on the last days of William Blake. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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Yiyun Li on the solaces (and limits) of music • Hernan Diaz on learning from Borges • Why Roe v. Wade was just the beginning • Seven contemporary writers on the literature of abortion • Marcia DeSanctis tries to reconcile her love of Russian lit with Putin’s ascendancy • Jeff VanderMeer talks to the designers of his book covers • What animals can show us about encountering the wider world • Alejandro Zambra in praise of Juan Emar • How celebrated Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones enshrined her own story • What does an artist’s wardrobe say about their work? • Steve Almond on the small moments that haunt us • Shelby Van Pelt on the sardonic octopus living in her head • A plea to give queer stories happy endings • Lauren McBrayer on writing herself out of a life that no longer felt like her own • Inside the tumultuous line of succession at a post-Jobs Apple • Karen Winn searches for her father’s ghost in Hungary • Why we turn to myths to untangle old problems • Does “Because I said so” ever really work? • Joanne Greenberg on writing honestly about her mental illness • Pyae Moe Thet War on the Myanmar concept of “hpone” • Empathizing with Peter Pan’s mother figures • On the post-apocalyptic landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies • On the Indigenous origins of Texas • Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood on the writing lessons of tarot • Candice Iloh on understanding their mother’s pain through writing • When Lady Bird Johnson became First Lady • Nina Jankowicz on the dangers of being a woman online • On womanhood and ambition • Beppe Severgnini on the Italian love for poetry • How Zabar’s became a culinary icon
