Chaos Is My Co-Pilot: In Praise of Tumultuous, Unruly Storytelling

Jen Fawkes on Discovering the Virtues of Volatility in Historical Fiction

July 26, 2024  By Jen Fawkes   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Lost and Found: Why I Almost Quit Journalism (and What Brought Me Back)

Lauren Markham: “Becoming lost within my profession helped me find my way back again.”

July 26, 2024  By Lauren Markham   Posted In  Climate Change  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir 
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What Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine Reveals About Athletes, Ancient and Modern

Justin Muchnick on His All-Time Favorite Novel of the Olympic Games

July 26, 2024  By Justin Muchnick   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  Sports 
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Phil Christman on the Poetics of Place

“I fear the obvious so much that my evasions of it have sometimes made me ridiculous.”

July 26, 2024  By Phil Christman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Game of the Worlds

César Aira (trans. Katherine Silver)

July 26, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Why your local indie bookstore might not have Hillbilly Elegy in stock this week (or ever).

July 25, 2024  By Drew Broussard   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 25, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 25, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There is no greater vindication of the suspicion that poor taste is a form of moral deficiency than the initial reception that greeted Hillbilly Elegy.”

July 25, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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I’m Jealous of My Friend’s Writing Success: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

July 25, 2024  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

Juliet Grames

July 25, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Vendettas, Gatekeepers, and Prima Donnas: (Very) Bad Mentors in Fiction

Jean Marc Ah-Sen Recommends Paige Cooper, Allegra Hyde, César Aira, and More

July 25, 2024  By Jean Marc Ah-Sen   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Poetry’s Mysterious Power: A Conversation With Dara Barrois/Dixon

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts”

July 25, 2024  By Peter Mishler   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Cristina Beltrán, Judith Butler, John Capgrave, and Others

July 25, 2024  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

July 25, 2024  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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Cool merch for classic novels.

July 24, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  History  Humor  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 24, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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“Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

Andrea Freeman on the Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

July 24, 2024  By Andrea Freeman   Posted In  Features  Food  History  News and Culture 
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What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society

Paul Cooper on Economic, Intellectual and Creative Development in the Ancient Near East

July 24, 2024  By Paul Cooper   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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On Writing—and Then Becoming—the “Other”

How Understanding Her Neurodiverse Protagonist Helped Mathangi Subramanian Understand Herself

July 24, 2024  By Mathangi Subramanian   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Vacation Mode: On the Literary Relationship Between Travel and Madness

Kate Preziosi on Recent Books by Rachel Lyon, Scarlett Thomas, and Kimberly King Parsons

July 24, 2024  By Kate Preziosi   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Travel 
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