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Jane Austen’s Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

In Defense of Pride and Prejudice's Mrs. Bennet

July 18, 2017  By Rachel Dunphy   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Burning Ground

Adam O'Riordan

“Alannah would always come at two o’clock as she had on her first visit.”

July 18, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

An Adaptation of an Adaptation of the Scottish Play

July 18, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Returns, Refugees, and Religious Cults

Inara Verzemnieks, Lawrence Osborne, Rebecca Stott, and More

July 18, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Announcing the Judges for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Awards

Also, Nick Offerman and Margaret Atwood, Together At Last

July 17, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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10 Essential Road Trip Books That Aren’t On the Road

An Alternative Reading List for Summer Journeys

July 17, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

"A Solitary Life is No Less Liberated Than One That is Lived More Publicly"

July 17, 2017  By Lucy Scholes   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

Tristine Rainer

“A dry crack of laughter came from the back of Anaïs’s throat.”

July 17, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
1

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Sarah Sentilles on Empathy, Art, and Abu Ghraib

July 17, 2017  By Sarah Sentilles   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Lit Hub Weekly: July 10 – 14, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Intimacy of Writing in the Second Person, in a Bar

"Never the Third Person. . . You Are Far Too Close for That"

July 14, 2017  By Mairead Small Staid   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
2

A Night with Virginia Woolf at America’s Strangest Literary Hotel

A Room of One's Own, In View of a Lighthouse

July 14, 2017  By Claire Luchette   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Travel 
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Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

“Bobbi and I first met Melissa at a poetry night in town, where we were performing together.”

July 14, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

On the Pleasures of Paris, City of Solitude and Poetry

July 14, 2017  By Susan Harlan   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Do We Need an Adaptation of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?

The Week in Literary Film and Television News

July 14, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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“It’s Raining in Love”

Gunnhild Øyehaug (Trans. by Kari Dickson)

“ Roar is terminally ill.”

July 14, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Dirt Road

James Kelman

“It was half five in the morning when his father wakened him.”

July 13, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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How to Turn Your Debut Novel In 13 Years Late

Becoming a Cautionary Tale—and Overcoming It

July 13, 2017  By Gabe Hudson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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