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The Awkward Age

Francesca Segal

“Though Pamela had not grown up with Thanksgiving, as a hostess she had nonetheless managed to capture its essence.”

June 1, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

On Sex and Moral Panic, from the Victorians to the Hays Code

June 1, 2017  By Carol Dyhouse   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Remembering Denis Johnson: “Anything is Possible and It Could Be Extraordinary”

Jim Shepard, Joy Williams, and More on One of the Best Writers of His Generation

May 31, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Playlist for a Classic Novel: Lolita

10 Songs for Vladimir Nabokov's Brilliant Study of Obsession

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Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Michele Filgate Talks to the Very Funny Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

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Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles’s First Novel

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There is Always War Somewhere: Memories of a WWII Childhood

Lore Segal Recalls Life as Refugee in Britain

May 31, 2017  By Lore Segal   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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I Found My Family in Jesus’ Son

James Boice on One of the Most Influential Books of the Latest 50 Years

May 31, 2017  By James Boice   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Otis Redding Records an All-Time Great Song a Month Before His Death

The Story of an American Classic, "The Dock of the Bay"

May 31, 2017  By Jonathan Gould   Posted In  Features  Music  News and Culture 
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What Abolishing the NEA Will Mean for Women Artists

"It’s hideous. We would be devastated."

May 31, 2017  By Tara Wanda Merrigan   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Another Morocco

Abdellah Taïa (trans. Rachael Small)

“It has been like this from the beginning.”

May 31, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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When the Hometown You Wrote About Is Changed Forever By Disaster

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May 30, 2017  By Scott Gould   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture 
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What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

Linguist John McWhorter in Conversation with Novelist and Playwright Kia Corthron

May 30, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Sex, Memoir, and the Women of the Beat Generation

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At the Cave Canem 20th-Anniversary Celebration

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Learning the ABC’s of Grad School Jargon

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The Hotel

Véronique Bizot (trans. Youna Kwak)

“I think you weren’t there when, having finished dinner in the hotel restaurant, the young couple went back up to their room to find half a dozen rats running around in every direction.”

May 30, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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