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The Mere Wife

Maria Dahvana Headley

"Say it. The beginning and end at once. I'm facedown in a truck bed, getting ready to be dead."

July 18, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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From a Low and Quiet Sea

Donal Ryan

"Let me tell you something about trees. They speak to each other. Just think what they must say. What could a tree have to say to a tree?"

July 17, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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How Someone Else’s Writer’s Block Helped Me Write My Novel

Robert Siegel on Getting the Details Just Right

July 17, 2018  By Robert Anthony Siegel   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Rebecca Solnit: They Think They Can Bully the Truth

On Trump, Putin, Weinstein, and Their Neverending Lies

July 17, 2018  By Rebecca Solnit   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Scenes from the Southern Border: Asylum-Seekers, Border Guards, Activists and More

"We’re a nation of laws, but the laws should be enforced with heart."

July 17, 2018  By Laura Tillman   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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He Was the Best We’d Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

Seth Sawyers Wonders Whatever Happened to the Phenom of Allegany County

July 17, 2018  By Seth Sawyers   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  News and Culture  Sports 
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The Books That Kept Me From Falling Apart in County Jail

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What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?

From the Introduction to Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth

July 17, 2018  By Michiko Kakutani   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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5 Great Books of Hollywood Outsiders

From Christopher Isherwood to the Weirder Side of Cult Life

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N. K. Jemisin’s First Short Story Collection is Coming This Fall

How Long 'Til Black Future Month? (About Four Months)

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When Wilde Met Whitman

As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"

July 16, 2018  By Michèle Mendelssohn   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture  Style 
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‘What is That? It’s Nothing.’ On the Unlikely Origins of Twitter

An Oral History, From the People Who Built It

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The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

"If I had written this book, I would have gone into hiding too"

July 16, 2018  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Watching The Handmaid’s Tale While Transitioning

Veronica Esposito on Encountering Misogyny in a New Way

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Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

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The Editor of New Poets in Native Nations in Conversation with Sheila Regan

July 16, 2018  By Sheila Regan   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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New Ways to Pay for More Poetry in the World

On Kickstarter's Summer of Poetry

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City of Crows

Chris Womersley

"That night, when everyone was asleep, Charlotte could bear it no longer. She slipped from beneath her thin blanket and sat up for a moment to orient herself in the gloom."

July 16, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Novels 
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