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15 Books You Should Read This October

A Reading List for Shorter Days and Crisper Nights

October 3, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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In the Distance

Hernan Diaz

“Two men escorted Håkan through the empty barroom and led him upstairs to a room adjacent to the woman’s.”

October 3, 2017  By Angel Nafis   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
0

Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

"Shit, Grit, and Mother Wit”

October 3, 2017  By Alejandro Nava   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
0

Lit Hub Daily: October 2, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

October 2, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
0

On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

A Look at the Country's Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme

October 2, 2017  By Christine Ro   Posted In  Book News  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
3

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

"The Thing I Feared Most in Myself Would One Day Be My Greatest Joy"

October 2, 2017  By Armistead Maupin   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
0

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

"Determining Whose Life is Grievable is an Act of Framing"

October 2, 2017  By Hayley Singer   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
0

All Memoir Titles Should Be Fleetwood Mac Songs

Emily Gould Talks to Minna Zallman Proctor About Her Landslide

October 2, 2017  By Emily Gould   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
1

Paul Auster: I Don’t Even Know if The New York Trilogy is Very Good.

An Author Looks Back at His Most Well-Known Book

October 2, 2017  By Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
2

Read William S. Burroughs’s Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?

October 2, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
21

“Zumki’s Snowlion”

Tenzin Tsundue

“Zumki stops her dad in the middle of the bustling New York street and insists that he tells her the snow lion story again. ”

October 1, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
1

Lit Hub Weekly: September 25 – 29, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

September 30, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

September 29, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
0

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

What Four Offerings from the NYFF Say About the State of the Genre

September 29, 2017  By Craig Hubert   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
0

Looking at the World Through My Character’s Eyes

On Roleplaying as Research

September 29, 2017  By Alison Moore   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
1

I Couldn’t Read While Grieving, Until I Found These Books

The Goldfinch and Children's Classics Brought Me Back from the Brink

September 29, 2017  By Veronica Henry   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
0

My Own Personal Herakles

On Love, Loss, and the Fire at the Center of the Earth

September 29, 2017  By Renée Branum   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
1

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

"I think I don't believe very much in psychotherapy for creative people."

September 29, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
6

Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

Writing Back to a Legacy, 200 Plus Poems Strong (and Counting)

September 29, 2017  By Catherine Woodard   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
1

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

Gabrielle Bellot on Literary Stargazing and Reckoning with the Infinite

September 29, 2017  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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