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Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

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Meet National Book Award Finalist Christopher Paul Curtis

The Author of The Journey of Little Charlie on Writer's Block and Coaching in the Minor Leagues

October 30, 2018  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  News and Culture 
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Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

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The Thin Line Between Liberalism and Totalitarianism

Helena Rosenblatt on the 20th-Century Reinvention of a Political Idea

October 29, 2018  By Helena Rosenblatt   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 2000s

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The Souls of Latarian Milton

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In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

Laird Hunt on the Women at the Center of His Novels

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“Dreamt In Stone”

Jon Fosse, Trans. Damion Searls

"No one saw the avalanche because it all fell apart so slowly, not day by day, not even hour by hour, not minute by minute, but it fell apart, it was falling apart the whole time and you could see, if you wanted to see it, if you didn’t refuse to see it, you could see it falling apart because it was an avalanche, it had to be an avalanche because what else could it be?"

October 29, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Matias Faldbakken, trans. Alice Menzies

"Every morning regularity and service act as a bulwark against inner noise. I work as much as I can. My days might seem endless, but that’s how I want them. "

October 26, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Nathaniel Kahn: “People Use Art Like the Stock Market.”

The Director of The Price Of Everything in Conversation With Paul Holdengraber

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