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Lit Hub Daily: August 16, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 16, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Long History of White Nationalism in America

The US Was a De Facto White-Supremacist Nation for Most of its Existence

August 16, 2017  By George Hawley   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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How the Silent Book Club Gave Me Back My Reading Life

Reading Alone, Together, at a Table of Introverts

August 16, 2017  By Maggie Downs   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
5

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric

August 16, 2017  By Matthew Zapruder   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Fire, Fury, and America’s Failure to Learn From the Past

David L. Ulin on Revisiting Hiroshima, and the Dark, Empty Rhetoric of the President

August 16, 2017  By David L. Ulin   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

Jeremiah Moss on NYC Restaurateurs Rebooting Classic Restaurants

August 16, 2017  By Jeremiah Moss   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Island of Point Nemo

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès (Trans. Hannah Chute)

“His fingers caress what look like the colorful bindings of the Collection Hetzel.”

August 16, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

“It’s Not Whether you Win or Lose, it’s Whether You Win”

August 16, 2017  By Fiona Helmsley   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

Stephanie Gangi Records Every Moment of Intentional Contact in Seven Days

August 15, 2017  By Stephanie Gangi   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Geoff Hilsabeck Considers a Country at War, and the Artists Within

August 15, 2017  By Geoffrey Hilsabeck   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  News and Culture 
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How to Find Michel de Montaigne’s Estate (Or Get Hopelessly Lost Trying)

When a Pilgrimage Becomes its Own Kind of Essay

August 15, 2017  By Erica Trabold   Posted In  Features 
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Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

August 15, 2017  By Joanna Scott   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Disappearances and Disasters

Lindsay Hunter, Deborah E. Kennedy, Henry Fountain, and More

August 15, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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Still a Fire

Paul Yoon

“He waits with the others.”

August 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2017

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When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

Motels, Broken Dreams, and Mysterious Men Asking Questions

August 14, 2017  By Kamila Shamsie   Posted In  Features  Freeman's  News and Culture 
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What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a “Slave”?

On the Power and Responsibility of Metaphor

August 14, 2017  By Peggy Shinner   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

August 14, 2017  By Jarett Kobek   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

August 14, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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