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From Gatsby to Giovanni’s Room, the Stories Behind 5 American Classics

Jake Grogan on the Origins of 5 Great Books

November 3, 2017  By Jake Grogan   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Surviving New Orleans: On Love, Death, and Life in a Hurricane

Anne Gisleson in Conversation with C. Morgan Babst

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Meet National Book Award Finalist Nancy MacLean

The author of Democracy in Chains on what we need to do now

November 3, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Frances FitzGerald

The author of The Evangelicals on how things have changed in America

November 3, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  News and Culture 
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Celebrating One of the Richest Literary Prizes in the World

Photos from Last Night's 2017 Kirkus Awards Ceremony

November 3, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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“This Is an Exercise in Detachment”

Amy Purcell

“We run ugly, me and Valentine. Pit-stained t-shirts, thrift shop track shorts, stretched out tube socks. ”

November 3, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: November 2, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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The Power of Facebook: How Big
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For fiction/non/fiction Alexis Madrigal and Alexander Chee on the Darker Side Social Media

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17 Books to Read This November

Amphibious Creatures, the creator of Mad Men, Fake News, and More

November 2, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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“Lottery”

Michael Shou-Yung Shum

“Barbara was late to the meeting, and she rushed to it directly from her job at the call center. It was only after she settled down in her metal folding chair next to the two new-comers that she noticed the socks under her slacks were mismatched.”

November 2, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

Sofia Perez on Losing One of the Things That Mattered Most to Her

November 2, 2017  By Sofia Perez   Posted In  Features  Food  Health  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Secrets of the Book Designer: Creating Something From Nothing

Ben Denzer on Making His Way Out of the Blank Page

November 2, 2017  By Ben Denzer   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 
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Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"

November 2, 2017  By Martin Puchner   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  Politics 
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Chasing the Brontë Sisters from South India to the Yorkshire Moors

Deepa Bhasthi on a Pilgrimage 20 Years in the Making

November 2, 2017  By Deepa Bhasthi   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture  Travel 
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10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

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November 2, 2017  By Ian Black   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Meet National Book Award Finalist David Grann

The author of Killers of the Flower Moon on Joan Didion and the devil

November 2, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  News and Culture 
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Masha Gessen

The Author of The Future Is History on how to make every story interesting

November 2, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  News and Culture 
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor

“Paul remembered staking out the Cubbyhole with Tony Pinto because Madonna and Sandra Bernhard had once had a date there in 1987, or kissed, or something.”

November 1, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

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November 1, 2017  By Jonathan Eig   Posted In  Biography  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics  Sports 
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