Lit Hub Daily: December 7, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 7, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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8 Books That Move Disability From the Margins to the Center

Katherine Dunn, Anne Finger, and Beyond

December 7, 2017  By Kenny Fries   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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How Heart of Darkness Revealed the Horror of Congo’s Rubber Trade

Conrad's Novel Led to Investigation (and Legislation) of Human Rights Abuses

December 7, 2017  By Maya Jasanoff   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Sally Rooney Wants to Start the Revolution

Speaking with the Conversations with Friends Author About Class and Care

December 7, 2017  By Yen Pham   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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The Fine Art of Learning to Say Nothing in Arabic

Adam Valen Levinson Falls in Love in a Foreign Language

December 7, 2017  By Adam Valen Levinson   Posted In  Features 
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9 Books You Should Read This December

Anne Carson, Jenny Diski, Daniel Ellsberg, and More

December 7, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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“The Old Princess”

Jenny Diski

“Long ago the old princess had stopped the clocks in her tower.”

December 7, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 6, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 6, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Who Cares About the Great American Novel?

Against a Uselessly Competitive, Hopelessly Gendered Concept

December 6, 2017  By Ursula K. Le Guin   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading

December 6, 2017  By Brandon Taylor   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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On Book Publishing’s Drinking Culture

What If We Didn't Drink at Every Single Event?

December 6, 2017  By Szilvia Molnar   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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How the US Leveraged the Love of Fulbright Scholars like Sylvia Plath

When Romance Becomes a Geopolitical Transaction

December 6, 2017  By Merve Emre   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Is it Too Late to Save the Internet from Itself?

Noam Cohen Talks to Andrew Keen About Digital Capitalism Run Amok

December 6, 2017  By Andrew Keen   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Whatever Happened to the Ecstasy of Art?

Arts Policy, Like All Policy, is Now Dominated by the Language of Managerialism

December 6, 2017  By Jules Evans   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Spy of the First Person

Sam Shepard

“It was that time of day that I love so much.”

December 6, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 5, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 5, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

On Photographer Colleen Plumb's Collaboration with the Nonhuman Rights Project

December 5, 2017  By Julia Cooke   Posted In  Longform  Nature  News and Culture  Politics 
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The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

From Balzac to Max Jacob, a Pilgrimage to Bygone Genius

December 5, 2017  By Peter Wortsman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  News and Culture 
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On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

Why So Much Anger for the Semicolon?

December 5, 2017  By Stephen Spector   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

When a Trillion Locusts Ate Everything in Sight

December 5, 2017  By Caroline Fraser   Posted In  Features  History  Nature  News and Culture 
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