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Lit Hub Daily: January 22, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 22, 2019  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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"We met at the supermarket. I was waiting in line to buy the usual nutrient-free snacks—crackers, cookies, Pop Tarts. She pulled up behind me with a cart full of staples—milk, eggs, canned tomatoes. As we neared the register, she unbuttoned her bright orange trench coat and searched its inside pocket. Whatever she expected to find there was missing."

January 22, 2019  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Diary of a Shutdown: A Furloughed Worker Watches 24 Hours of CNN

On the Mundane Horror of Government Shutdown News

January 22, 2019  By Ryan McDonald   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On Revelations from a Chance Graveside Encounter

January 22, 2019  By Emily Van Duyne   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests

January 22, 2019  By David Treuer   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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Why Can’t Sisters Get Along? A Reading List

From Edith Wharton to J. Courtney Sullivan, a Literature of Sibling Friction

January 22, 2019  By Lynda Cohen Loigman   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

A Decorated WWII Veteran Returns to the Jim Crow South

January 22, 2019  By Richard Gergel   Posted In  Features  Longform  News and Culture  Politics 
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On the Absurdities of Law on the US-Mexican Border

"I tried to imagine what heritage a border could have."

January 22, 2019  By J. J. Mulligan Sepúlveda   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

“I don’t know if it’s the well water or what.”

January 22, 2019  By Karen Crouse   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Sports 
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Literary Disco Considers the Genius of Tommy Orange

In the Latest Episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod Talk There, There

January 22, 2019  By Literary Disco   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Disco 
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Did Diderot’s Legacy Live Up To His Genius?

How the 18th-Century Philosopher Was Forgotten and Rediscovered

January 18, 2019  By Andrew S. Curran   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Why I Started Publishing an ‘Indigenous Version’ of My Articles

Jenni Monet on Fighting Erasure in Colonized Newsrooms

January 18, 2019  By Jenni Monet   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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On Black Millennials in Search of the New South

Reniqua Allen Tackles the Idea of the "Black Mecca"

January 18, 2019  By Reniqua Allen   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

Brandon Taylor on the Gift That is "Wild Geese"

January 18, 2019  By Brandon Taylor   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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How Do You Save an Endangered Species in a Warzone?

The Race to Save the Asiatic Cheetah in Afghanistan

January 18, 2019  By Alex Dehgan   Posted In  Climate Change  Nature  News and Culture 
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A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

Quoth the Raven, Many, Many Times . . .

January 18, 2019  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on AIDS, the Complacent Center-Left, and Higher Ed in the 90s (Drugs)

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

January 18, 2019  By Otherppl with Brad Listi   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Otherppl with Brad Listi 
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“Helmet, Kid, Bike.” Remembering Claudio López de Lamadrid

Miguel Aguilar on an Iconic Spanish Editor

January 18, 2019  By Miguel Aguilar   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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