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Lit Hub Daily: August 4, 2020

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 4, 2020  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real?

Terrence Holt on Common Distortions and False Equivalencies

August 4, 2020  By Terrence Holt   Posted In  Features  Health  News and Culture  Politics 
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Headed North: What to Pack for Siberia

Sophy Roberts on Preparing for Cold, Fire, and Mosquitoes in One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth

August 4, 2020  By Sophy Roberts   Posted In  Memoir  Nature  News and Culture  Travel 
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Navigating the Dual Nightmare of an Opioid Epidemic and a Global Pandemic

Maya Alexandri on the Front Lines of Covid-19

August 4, 2020  By Maya Alexandri   Posted In  Features  Health  News and Culture 
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The Natural World Can Teach Us a Lot About the Ancient Art of Bulls**t

On Deceptive Ravens, Bluffing Shrimp and Other Snake Oil Salesmen

August 4, 2020  By Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture  Science 
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Cautionary Lessons From Turkey’s Slide Into Totalitarianism

Elliot Ackerman on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Move to Silence the
Last Voices of Dissent

August 4, 2020  By Elliot Ackerman   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics  Technology 
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Postcards from a Quarantined Paradise

Craig Santos Perez's Letter from Hawaiʻi

August 4, 2020  By Craig Santos Perez   Posted In  Features  Food  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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Susan Orlean on Our Collective Desire For a Little Levity Right Now

From the Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengraber

August 4, 2020  By The Quarantine Tapes   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  The Quarantine Tapes 
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Reading the Planet’s Future in
Hawai‘i’s April Rains

Ligaya Mishan on Facing the Climate Crisis

August 4, 2020  By Ligaya Mishan   Posted In  Climate Change  Features  News and Culture 
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How White Supremacists Used Mardi Gras to Enforce Racial Division

Edward Ball on Reconstruction-Era Carnival in New Orleans

August 4, 2020  By Edward Ball   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Sopan Deb Reads From Missed Translations

From Our Radio-Theater Podcast, Storybound

August 4, 2020  By Storybound    Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Storybound 
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Stuart Stevens: Why Are Republicans Better at Critiquing Donald Trump Than Democrats?

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On

August 4, 2020  By Keen On   Posted In  Features  Keen On  Lit Hub Radio 
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Lindsay Ellis on the Joys of Writing About 2007

This Week on So Many Damn Books

August 4, 2020  By So Many Damn Books   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  So Many Damn Books 
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The Metaphysical Translations of Mormonism Founder Joseph Smith

From the New Books Network Podcast

August 4, 2020  By New Books Network   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  New Books Network 
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Behind the Mic: On A Grain of Salt by Dr. Joe Schwarcz, Read by Jonathan Yen

Dig Into the Science Behind What We Eat and Why

August 4, 2020  By Behind the Mic    Posted In  Behind the Mic  Features  Lit Hub Radio 
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A Saint From Texas

Edmund White

August 4, 2020  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Personal Space: Morgan Jerkins on Making Unexpected Family Discoveries

The Author of Wandering in Strange Lands Talks to Sari Botton

August 3, 2020  By The Virtual Book Channel   Posted In  Features  Memoir  The Virtual Book Channel 
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Authors for Black Voices is auctioning some seriously cool shit to to raise money for racial justice non-profits.

August 3, 2020  By Jessie Gaynor   Posted In  Book News  The Hub 
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A new Stephen King novel is coming this March.

August 3, 2020  By Corinne Segal   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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“Too much exercise!” Read Flaubert’s (very harsh) writing advice for Guy de Maupassant.

August 3, 2020  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  The Hub 
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