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Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 14, 2019  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Lyz Lenz: Finding a Creation Myth of One’s Own

The Author of Godland Hits the Road in Search of a Little Darkness

August 14, 2019  By Lyz Lenz   Posted In  Memoir  News and Culture  Religion 
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The Theranos Effect:
When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds

The Tragicomic Farce of Faking It in the Lab

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The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

Maggie Paxson on Refuge and Resistance in WWII

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The Quiet Renaissance of India’s Community Cookbooks

A Plea For Regional Flavor Rises in the Era of Prepackaging

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6 Books by Texan Writers You Need to Read

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Tales from the Lone Star State

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“Henderson the Rain King”

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Sister Helen Prejean:
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Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Some of Europe's Most Enduring, Complex Literary Works

August 14, 2019  By Roy Jacobsen   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  Religion 
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Juliet Escoria on Writing a Novel With No Redemptive Lesson at the End

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The Author of The Far Field in conversation with Kendra Winchester
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The cruelty is the point: Trump official suggests change to Emma Lazarus’s Statue of Liberty poem.

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From 15th-Century West Africa to Suburban Long Island

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Do We Care Enough About Animals to Save Them From Extinction?

Jane Rawson on Empathy Deficit and the Work of Contemporary Fiction

August 13, 2019  By Jane Rawson   Posted In  Climate Change  History  News and Culture  Politics  Science 
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We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

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A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

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