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How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

David Howard Will Never Quite Get the Crust Right...

December 20, 2017  By David Howard   Posted In  Features  Food  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Piano Tide

Kathleen Dean Moore

“Tick walked a circle around the new woman’s cargo. Somebody who knew knots had tied that tarp up—a single trucker’s hitch, no nonsense.”

December 20, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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How to Tell the Story of Bethlehem

Christmas Pudding in the Holy Land

December 20, 2017  By Nicholas Blincoe   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of 2017

From Campus Novels to Cult Leaders and Beyond

December 19, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 19, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 19, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the Odyssey

Emily Wilson on the Virtues of Hospitality, Now and in the Ancient World

December 19, 2017  By Emily Wilson   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  On Translation 
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How Fetishizing ‘Craft’ Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

Michael Bazzett Worries About the Imagining Animal

December 19, 2017  By Michael Bazzett   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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5 Poems to Appease the Infamous Welsh Christmas Horse Skeleton

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December 19, 2017  By Blair Beusman and Jess Bergman   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem  Reading Lists 
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Palestinian Children’s Book Becomes Target for Boycott and Censorship

Radhika Sainath Tries to Find a Book for Her Toddler

December 19, 2017  By Radhika Sainath   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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The Enchanted Clock

Julia Kristeva trans. by Armine Kotin Mortimer

“My son X-rays me, entrails and bones. He knows what pain constricts my throat if someone happens to raise their voice.”

December 19, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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“The Gift”

Jean-Philippe Blondel

“To be honest, I’ve always loathed Christmas.”

December 18, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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Debating a Second Grader on the Merits of Wikipedia and the Etymology of ‘Ladybird’

Evan Lavender-Smith May or May Not Be Smarter Than His Son

December 18, 2017  By Evan Lavender-Smith   Posted In  Features 
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Notable Literary Deaths in 2017

A Last Goodbye to the Authors and Editors We Lost This Year

December 18, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

Or: Clarity in Consensus

December 18, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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The Privilege of Plotlessness

Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns

December 18, 2017  By Lynn Steger Strong   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Addicted to Glamour: Writing My Way Back to the Center of Life

Joan Juliet Buck on Life After Memoir

December 18, 2017  By Joan Juliet Buck   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Weekly: December 11 – 15, 2017

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A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

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December 15, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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