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Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

Super-Cannes: A Perfect Novel of the Millenium

December 28, 2017  By Ali Smith   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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“Lagomorph”

Alexander MacLeod

“Some nights, when the rabbit and I are both down on the floor playing tug of war with his toy carrot, he will suddenly freeze in one position and stop everything, as if a great breakthrough has finally arrived.”

December 28, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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10 Songs for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Very Best in 14th-century Holiday Morality Tales

December 28, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Music  News and Culture 
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The Top Ten Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2017

From the Elusive Humanity of Donald Trump to the Great American Novel

December 28, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture 
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“The Murder of Santa Claus”

P. D. James

“If you’re an addict of detective fiction, you may have heard of me, Charles Mickledore.”

December 27, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 27, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 27, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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20 Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017

Freeman's Contributors on their Favorite Undersung Titles

December 27, 2017  By John Freeman   Posted In  Features  Freeman's  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 30 to 21

From Twitter Gaffes to American Invasions

December 27, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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10 Dark Short Stories You Can Read Online to Escape Holiday Cheer

Under the table on your phone, if necessary

December 27, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Yan Lianke and Xiaolu Guo on Writing Through Rural Poverty in China

On the Life of the Chinese Novelist in Exile

December 27, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Lit Hub Weekly: December 18 – 22, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 23, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 40 to 31

From Reading Rainbow to Presidential Crime Novels

December 22, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Real Gratitude Shouldn’t Be Easy: On It’s a Wonderful Life

George Bailey Rejects the Given in Favor of the Good

December 22, 2017  By Emily Harnett   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 22, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 22, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Sisters of the Cross

Alexei Remizov, Trans. by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy

“It was not because their duties brought them close together that Marakulin and Glotov were friends.”

December 22, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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The Most-Rejected Books of All Time

(Of the Ones That Were Eventually Published)

December 22, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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What the Lit Hub Staff is Reading, Watching, and Listening to This Holiday Season

From Muppets to Middlemarch, RuPaul to David Attenborough, we've got the season covered

December 22, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Safiya Sinclair on Waiting for the Storm on America’s Margins

Peter Mishler Interviews the Author of Cannibal

December 22, 2017  By Peter Mishler   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Taking Inspiration from my Grandparents’ Wartime Love Letters

"No Heart-Emoji Could Ever Mean as Much"

December 22, 2017  By Brendan Mathews   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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In the Fall They Come Back

Robert Bausch

“Except for what happened with little George Meeker, my first year in the classroom went rather smoothly.”

December 21, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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