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Lit Hub Daily: December 18, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 18, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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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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Lit Hub Daily: December 15, 2017

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A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

From Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, of course

December 15, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile

How Edward Garnett gave a 37-Year-Old Conrad his First Big Break

December 15, 2017  By Helen Smith   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
1

East Bay Booksellers: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read

From Leonora Carrington to Tongo Eisen-Martin

December 15, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Playwright-Turned-Novelist Kia Corthron on the Varieties of Storytelling

December 15, 2017  By Kia Corthron   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Cape Town

Charming Old Book Shops and Dimly Lit Bars in the City by the Sea

December 15, 2017  By Ishay Govender-Ypma   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Travel 
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Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez In Conversation

On Idiosyncrasies, Poetry in Politics, and Teaching

December 15, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction and Poetry  In Conversation  Poem 
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One Station Away

Olaf Olafsson

“I could hear the sea. That was perhaps an hour after I became paralyzed, although I couldn’t be sure as I soon lost track of time. ”

December 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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All the President’s Shakespeare

Fiction/Non/Fiction, No. 6: High Drama and Villainy in Trump's White House

December 14, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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“At Last the Escalade”

Noy Holland

“Well worth it, well worth it, the last of the legendary glaciers and cell phone service besides. They have seen a wolf and bighorn sheep and a hundred cheeping pikas in the rocks and a pair of boxing marmots.”

December 14, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 14, 2017

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December 14, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running

Runner is a Classic, Unsung Piece of Mid-Century Filmmaking

December 14, 2017  By Nick Ripatrazone   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Film and TV  News and Culture  Poem 
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