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Abraham Lincoln: Breaking Down the Myth of a Perfect President

Fred Kaplan on the Antislavery Moralist Who Distrusted Abolitionism

June 11, 2018  By Fred Kaplan   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Visible Empire

Hannah Pittard

“In the first few hours, confusion. The numbers kept changing. The French were saying 121 dead, which meant—according to the manifest—there must be 11 alive.”

June 11, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Lit Hub Weekly: June 4 – 8, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 9, 2018  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 8, 2018  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Upstate

James Wood

“First he would have to go and see his mother. He would tell her—something about Vanessa, not everything of course.”

June 8, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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The Photographer Who Recorded Assad’s Torture

How One Man Risked His Life For Justice in Syria

June 8, 2018  By Garance Le Caisne   Posted In  Art and Photography  Biography  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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How LA Became a Destination on the Rare Book Trail

In the 1930s, Bookstores Were a Haven Artists, Actors, and Raconteurs

June 8, 2018  By Victoria Dailey   Posted In  Art and Photography  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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Surviving a Winter in the Rockies in the Name of Writing

Life in a Horse Barn at 8,000 Feet

June 8, 2018  By Karen Auvinen   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Nature  News and Culture 
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How Vanya on 42nd Street Captured a Changing New York City

On the Film Adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya

June 8, 2018  By Andy Merrifield   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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What We Loved This Week

The Lit Hub Staff on Silicon Valley, Rachel Kushner, Beach House, and more

June 8, 2018  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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Rivers

Martin Michael Driessen, Trans. by Jonathan Reeder

“'If you have to drink, then do it someplace where it won’t bother anyone,' his wife had said.”

June 8, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 7, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 7, 2018  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

James Tate Hill on the Multifarious Legacy of the Artist Formerly Known As

June 7, 2018  By James Tate Hill   Posted In  Features  Longform  Memoir  Music  News and Culture 
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The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Aminatta Forna, from Reporter to Novelist, and Everything in Between

June 7, 2018  By Aminatta Forna   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Freeman's  News and Culture 
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Life in the Borderlands, from Mexico to Hungary

On the Universal Realities of the Migrant's Existence

June 7, 2018  By Alfredo Corchado   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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On the Pain of Breaking Up with My Old Apartment

Adrienne Celt Tries to Settle Into Her New Home

June 7, 2018  By Adrienne Celt   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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The Abortion Clinic That Wasn’t

A First-Hand Account of the Anti-Choice Movement's Mass Deception

June 7, 2018  By Emily Heiden   Posted In  Features  Health  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Salman Rushdie on His Sister’s Iconic Cookbook

Sameen Rushdie's Home Cooking Comes to American Kitchens

June 7, 2018  By Salman Rushdie   Posted In  Features  Food  News and Culture 
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Language as Homeland, Identity, and Normality

On Translating Catalan

June 7, 2018  By Mara Faye Lethem   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  On Translation 
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“Free Will for Free”

Giordano Meacci, Trans. by J. Bishop

“For Her it was no small problem, to respond to his wish in light of what she could fathom of it: to understand the request without even being clear on what a 'man of her life' might be.”

June 7, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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