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10 Books You Should Read
This August

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

August 1, 2019  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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The Encyclopedic Genius of
Melville’s Masterpiece

On Moby Dick as a Way of Seeing the World

August 1, 2019  By Suzanne Conklin Akbari   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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The Life and Death of an American
Indie Press

What Exactly Happened to Curbside Splendor?

August 1, 2019  By Taylor Moore   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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On Our Relentless Quest for Bigfoot

What Does the Elusiveness of the Sasquatch Reveal About Human Nature?

August 1, 2019  By John Zada   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture 
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If You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Book

Celebrate Herman Melville's 200th Birthday With Some Cool Whales

August 1, 2019  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Art and Photography  Book News  Design  News and Culture 
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The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

How Much Do Our Credit Cards Define Us?

August 1, 2019  By Finn Brunton   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics  Technology 
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On the Difficulty of Translating British Humor Into American Comedy 

Can Iconic British Rom-Com Four Weddings and a Funeral Work As American TV?

August 1, 2019  By Alessandro Tersigni   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
0

The Hotel Neversink

Adam O'Fallon Price

August 1, 2019  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud’s grave.

July 31, 2019  By Aaron Robertson   Posted In  History  The Hub 
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There’s a newly translated John Steinbeck story about a chef and his cat.

July 31, 2019  By Corinne Segal   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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All my libations must have worked, because a Circe series is coming to HBO Max.

July 31, 2019  By Jessie Gaynor   Posted In  Book News  The Hub 
0

Lit Hub Daily: July 31, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 31, 2019  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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The Perils of Designing a Cover for a Novel You Truly Love

Oliver Munday on Redesigning Fleur Jaeggy's 1989 Masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline

July 31, 2019  By Oliver Munday   Posted In  Design 
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Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking

The Necessity of Revisiting His Classic If This Is a Man

July 31, 2019  By Giacomo Lichtner   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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When Novelists Become Method Actors

Leland Cheuk on Comedy, Immersive Research, and the Underrated Value of Experience in 2019

July 31, 2019  By Leland Cheuk   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in July

July 31, 2019  By Emily Firetog   Posted In  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Eclipsed, a Wandering Reading Series, Finds a Home

On the Many Lives of a Literary Event

July 31, 2019  By Janelle Greco   Posted In  Events  Features  News and Culture 
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The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
Being an Art Monster

Sarah Elaine Smith on Working a Tech Job While Trying to Make Art

July 31, 2019  By Sarah Elaine Smith   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir 
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Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

At the Unamuno Author Series Festival, Poets Reckon
with Looming Fascism

July 31, 2019  By Anna Hundert   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Events  Features  News and Culture  Travel 
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Sujata Massey on Her New Novel, The Satapur Moonstone

Reading Women Discuss 1920s India and the Woman Lawyer
Who Inspired the Perveen Mistry Series

July 31, 2019  By Reading Women   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Reading Women 
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