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Lit Hub Daily: June 21, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 21, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

June 21, 2017  By Ed Simon   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'

June 21, 2017  By Brian Dillon   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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22 of Your Favorite Writers on What to Read This Summer

Celeste Ng, Rumaan Alam, Lauren Groff, Catherine Lacey and More

June 21, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Katie MacBride on Guns, De-Escalation, and the Need for Funding

June 21, 2017  By Katie McBride   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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For the First Time On Its Own, Hans Christian Andersen’s Adult Novel

You Definitely Do Not Want to Mess with The Ice Virgin

June 21, 2017  By Hans Christian Andersen   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

Jeanette and Richard Seaver, a Life in Publishing

June 21, 2017  By John J. Healey   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Jill Eisenstadt and Darcey Steinke on Writing, Motherhood, and Brooklyn

The Author of Swell in Conversation with an Old Friend...

June 21, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Today in Post-Apocalyptic Problems

Elizabeth Crane

“A couple years later.”

June 21, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 20, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 20, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Measuring the Decline of America’s First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

June 20, 2017  By Lawrence Lenhart   Posted In  Longform  News and Culture  Politics 
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To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

June 20, 2017  By Veronica Esposito   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

From John Cheever to Amy Hempel, Saying Much in Few Words

June 20, 2017  By Olivia Clare Friedman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, ‘The Most Unlikely Leader Ever’

In Conversation with the London-Based Writer and Anthropologist

June 20, 2017  By Christopher Lydon   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Stop Calling Paul Beatty an ‘Angry’ Writer

Talking to the Author of the Man Booker Prize-Winning The Sellout

June 20, 2017  By Julie Phillips   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Forrest Trump: On the Donald’s Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

June 20, 2017  By Susan Rieger   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Minae Mizumura on Serializing Novels, Aging, and the Eternal Internet

The Author of Inheritance From Mother Talks to Benjamin Moser

June 20, 2017  By Benjamin Moser   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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“Have You Ever Tried”

Anna Marschalk-Burns

“For once, Lily is still.”

June 20, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Widows, War, and Weight

Sarah Perry, Mark Bowden, Roxane Gay, and More

June 20, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 19, 2017

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