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“Hear Our Defeats”

Laurent Gaudé, trans. Alison Anderson

"Today the city is singing, exulting in the passage of its emperor, with Wingate by his side—and he wonders what a victory is, when no battle has been won."

January 15, 2019  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Some Hilarious Illustrations from America’s First Bestselling Diet Book

Lulu Hunt Peters Invented Calorie Counting and Let her Nephew Draw the Pictures

January 15, 2019  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Design  News and Culture 
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This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!

January 15, 2019  By Rebecca Romney   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  Politics 
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Samanta Schweblin: There’s No Place Like Home, Including Home Itself

The Author of Mouthful of Birds on Being Compared to Kafka (Among Other Things)

January 15, 2019  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Alice Munro Helped Me Finish My Story (And I Didn’t Even Know It)

Chris Power on Unconscious Literary Influences

January 15, 2019  By Chris Power   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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‘Ideas of Heaven’ A Poem by Dorianne Laux

From Her Collection Only As the Day Is Long

January 15, 2019  By Dorianne Laux   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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How to Say “I’m a Writer” and Mean It

"First you must believe you’re a writer."

January 15, 2019  By Bethany Marcel   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Read an Extract from Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, Winner of This Year’s T. S. Eliot Prize

"You have been thinking of the building opposite at night, the lights / Going off one by one, a diminished Mondrian"

January 14, 2019  By Hannah Sullivan   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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Lit Hub Daily: January 14, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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Into a Crueler America: Two Border Crossings, 30 Years Apart

Reyna Grande on a Chance Encounter at the San Antonio Airport

January 14, 2019  By Reyna Grande   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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How I Found Love One Literary Event at a Time

The Tale of Tajja Isen's Very Canadian Romance

January 14, 2019  By Tajja Isen   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Jennifer Traig on the Bizarre Violence of Early Kid Lit

January 14, 2019  By Jennifer Traig   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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On the Problems of Changing Style, Novel to Novel

Tim Johnston Finds Long Lost Advice from Raymond Carver

January 14, 2019  By Tim Johnston   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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What’s Needed is Magic: Writing Advice from Haruki Murakami

Also: Talent, Focus, and Endurance

January 14, 2019  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
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The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

Rosie Haward on Desire and Dizziness, from Bernini to Adjani

January 14, 2019  By Rosie Haward   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Something Like Breathing

Angela Readman

"Bunny Tyler believed in God and Tupperware. I’m not sure which she believed in more. Wherever she went, she carried a duck-egg handbag containing a Bible, a revolutionary cheese grater, and a storage pot. One hand remained on the clasp, ready to whip out the contents at any given moment, should anyone need spiritual guidance."

January 14, 2019  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Three Days in the Life (and Mind) of Jan Morris

From the Diary of an Iconic Writer, From Montaigne to Trump

January 11, 2019  By Jan Morris   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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The Scientific Case for Calling the President a Motherf*cker

Emma Byrne on the Rhetorical Power of Profanity

January 11, 2019  By Emma Byrne   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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