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Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

May 4, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”

May 4, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Dani Shapiro on First Books, Found Lists, Marriage, and More

The Author of Hourglass in Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

May 4, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  A Phone Call From Paul  Features  Lit Hub Radio 
1

How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

On the Vital Importance of the NEH and the NEA

May 4, 2017  By Margaret Renkl   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
4

Librarians in the 21st Century: It Is Becoming Impossible to Remain Neutral

Stacie Williams on How to Confront Microaggressions in the Library

May 4, 2017  By Stacie Williams   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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Ben Lerner on the Porous Boundaries of Literature, Truth, and Plagiarism

Highlights from BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary

May 4, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
2

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

Sallie Tisdale Wanders Out Onto the Ice

May 4, 2017  By Sallie Tisdale   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Sports 
1

State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

On the Virtually Unknown History of the Delta Collection

May 4, 2017  By Melissa Adler   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 3, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

May 3, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

From Wittgenstein to The Golden Girls, a Man of Varied Interests

May 3, 2017  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
0

Not Finishing My Novel Would Have Ruined My Life

Lisa Ko with Notes on the Long Game That is Writing

May 3, 2017  By Lisa Ko   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
10

Bookselling in the 21st Century: “Please Don’t Touch Me.”

Emily Ballaine on the Exhausting False Intimacies of Life in Retail

May 3, 2017  By Emily Ballaine   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
7

Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on Gender and Power

"History is malleable, it reshapes itself so easily, too easily"

May 3, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
0

In the End, Everyone Will Have a Mugshot: On the Birth of the Police

The Police Came Into Being to Answer a Single Question:
Who Owns What?

May 3, 2017  By Bill Lavender   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
0

Muslim-American Kids Need to See More of Themselves in Pop Culture

Hena Khan on the Daily Need to Combat Rising Islamophobia

May 3, 2017  By Hena Khan   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
2

What I’d Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald’s Troubled Final Years

And How he Turned Personal Tragedy into His Best Work

May 3, 2017  By Cody Delistraty   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
1

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

Lies, Damn Lies, and Literary Scholarship

May 3, 2017  By Helena Kelly   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
41

Five Pieces of Writing Advice from Philip Schultz

Beware the Shitbird

May 3, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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The Lights

Brian McGreevy

“The spring of the dead birds, the one after the death of my mother, I knew a broken angel was going to come into my life.”

May 3, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
0

Post Identity

Excerpt From a New Poem by Carmen Giménez Smith

May 3, 2017  By Carmen Giménez Smith   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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