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The Optimistic Decade

Heather Abel

“It was April 1990, not even four months into the new decade, and already Nelson Mandela had been freed and Daniel Ortega defeated and the first McDonald’s opened in the USSR, which was about to drift apart, ending the Cold War, and still, although increasingly people chose to ignore this, everything was awful when it came down to inequality and Earth destruction and generally being fucked by capitalism.”

May 3, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Fate and Fortune:
What Are We Responsible For?

Fiction/Non/Fiction #16: Jess Row and Meghan O’Rourke

May 3, 2018  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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A Rare Conversation with the Cult Chinese Writer Xi Xi

"Xi Xi, Like Her Work, is Not Easy to Pin Down"

May 3, 2018  By Megan Walsh   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 

How the Coney Island Sideshow Saved Thousands of Babies

Before Neonatal Care in Hospitals, There Were Incubators at the Carnival

May 3, 2018  By Tessa Fontaine   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week

Charles Simic on Tracy K. Smith, Ron Charles on David Duchovny, and more.

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14 Books Not to Read if You’re Hungry

Cooking Memoirs, Culinary Profiles, Fictional Restaurants, and More

May 3, 2018  By Hannah Howard   Posted In  Features  Food  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

From Smoke, with Illustrations by Selçuk Demirel

May 3, 2018  By John Berger   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 

What If We Haven’t Met Aliens Yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too?

Nathan H. Lents Wonders If We're the Best the Universe Can Do

May 3, 2018  By Nathan H. Lents   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Popular Posts  Science 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 2, 2018

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

Reading Motherhood and And Now We Have Everything

May 2, 2018  By Jennifer Schaffer   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

May 2, 2018  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture  Popular Posts 
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For Libraries, the “Customer is Always Right” Might Be Wrong

Kristen Arnett: Hard Lessons Learned from the Front Desk

May 2, 2018  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  Humor  News and Culture 
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What Happens When You Sail Into a Hurricane

The Final Hours of the Merchant Ship El Faro

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Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

How a Honey-Loving Bear Revolutionized Children's Literature

May 2, 2018  By James Campbell   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 

How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

Peter Ackroyd on AIDS in the UK, Clause 28, and the Gay Liberation Front

May 2, 2018  By Peter Ackroyd   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

Hillary Chute on the Pioneering Feminist Cartoonist

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The President’s Gardens

Muhsin al-Ramli, Trans. by Luke Leafgren

“In a land without bananas, the village awoke to nine banana crates, each containing the severed head of one of its sons.”

May 2, 2018  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 1, 2018

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If Reality TV is Superficial, Why Does It Make Me Feel So Much?

"I Don’t Have the Confidence to Call What I Love Bad and Still Love It"

May 1, 2018  By Lucas Mann   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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