Forbidden Fruit

Stanley Gazemba

“The air over the village that evening was pregnant with tension.”

July 12, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

July 12, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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So You’ve Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

Part Two in Terry McDonell's Summer Series on How to Be a Writer

July 12, 2017  By Terry McDonell   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

July 12, 2017  By Howard Zinn   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

July 12, 2017  By Laura Dassow Walls   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau’s Observations on Animals, Illustrated

On American Toads, "Striped Squirels," and More

July 12, 2017  By Henry David Thoreau   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  News and Culture 
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How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

"This Function is as Vital as Air, as Vital as Water"

July 12, 2017  By Kristen Case   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

Nikesh Shukla on the Dual Life of an Immigrant Son in North West London

July 12, 2017  By Nikesh Shukla   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

On the Philosopher's Obsession with a New England Oak Forest

July 12, 2017  By Richard Higgins   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 11, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 11, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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So You’ve Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

Introducing a New Summer Series on Writing from Terry McDonell

July 11, 2017  By Terry McDonell   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

July 11, 2017  By Brandon Taylor   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Why E.B. White Was Wrong About (Some of) the Elements of Style

Lovers of the Passive Voice Unite

July 11, 2017  By A. L. Kennedy   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Visiting the Real America, Where Seven-Year-Olds Translate Don Quixote

Francisco Goldman Listens in at Still Waters in a Storm

July 11, 2017  By Francisco Goldman   Posted In  Longform  News and Culture  Travel 
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Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

Philippe Sands on the History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

July 11, 2017  By Philippe Sands   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

On the Responsibility of Writers, White and Black, to Write the Other

July 11, 2017  By Brian Platzer   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

On the Truth-Telling of Roberto Bolaño

July 11, 2017  By Veronica Esposito   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Well

Akhil Sharma

“We lived frugally.”

July 11, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

Eve Babitz, Matthew Klam, Nina Riggs, and More

July 11, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening

July 11, 2017  By Emily Van Duyne   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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