The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

Why Have They Been Mythologized as Solitary Eccentrics or Isolated Geniuses?

October 11, 2017  By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright

How He Sought to Bring the Figure of the Mining Engineer to the Stage

October 11, 2017  By Kenneth Whyte   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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137 Writers and the Words They’re Best Known For

Kaveh Akbar Presents a Crowdsourced List of Signature Literary Words

October 11, 2017  By Kaveh Akbar   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Putin, the Nobel, and the Greatest

Masha Gessen, Kasuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Eig, and More

October 11, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Three New Poems by Danez Smith

October 11, 2017  By Danez Smith   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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Lit Hub Daily: October 10, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

October 10, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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On Creating a New Imprint’s First Ever Cover: Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart

Secrets of the Book Designer: Rachel Ake Starts Things Off for Lenny

October 10, 2017  By Rachel Ake   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 
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My Favorite Books to Sell Over 20 Years of Owning a Bookstore

From Laurie Colwin to Tanizaki

October 10, 2017  By Jeanette Watson   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

Ottessa Moshfegh on Insanity, Mistaken Identity, and the Dark Tales

October 10, 2017  By Ottessa Moshfegh   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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On the Hard Lessons of Being a Hockey Dad

Nick Paumgarten Looks for a Sheet of Fresh Ice

October 10, 2017  By Nick Paumgarten   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“Diversity in Publishing” Doesn’t Exist—But Here’s How it Can

Chris Jackson On How to Anchor an Abstract Question in Reality

October 10, 2017  By Chris Jackson   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Writing Middle-Aged Love

"There’s Comfort in Recognizing Us as Unremarkable, Part of the Big Wheel of Life"

October 10, 2017  By Beth Ann Fennelly   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Naomi Alderman Taps Into the Deeper Powers of Women

The Author of The Power Discusses the Greatest Bloodless Revolution in History

October 10, 2017  By Daneet Steffens   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Abandon

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, trans. Arunava Sinha

“And then we proceed to wander around the city in search of shelter. We drift through the morbid yellow afternoon. ”

October 10, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Lit Hub Weekly: October 2 – 6, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

October 7, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Art of Taking a Knee:
Colin Kaepernick Edition

Introducing a New Lit Hub Podcast: fiction/non/fiction

October 6, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

October 6, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Is There Ever a Right Time to Talk to Your Children About Fascism?

Kera Bolonik Considers Conversations with Her Five-Year-Old

October 6, 2017  By Kera Bolonik   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Carmen Maria Machado on Campfire Stories and Queer Teen Touchstones

Talking to the Author of Her Body and Other Parties

October 6, 2017  By Claire Luchette   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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The Last Personal Essay About Race I Will Ever Write

Musa Okwonga on Realizing Racism Doesn’t Need to Be His Problem Anymore

October 6, 2017  By Musa Okwonga   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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