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Bill Roorbach

“They’d driven where Uncle Bud had shown them on his tattered maps—west on a long unmarked logging road deep into the woods, through two unattended paper-company gates, then north on a faint jeep trail, once much used, no longer.”

June 28, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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When I Worked as an Assistant to My Hero, Adrienne Rich

"I learned a lesson that has served me well: I learned to be careful."

June 28, 2017  By Victoria Redel   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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The Problem With Writing About Florida

"This Isn't Your Place to Write About. It's Barely Mine."

June 28, 2017  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture 
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Can You Really Have a Book Club for Eight Million People?

On the Inaugural One Book, One New York Project

June 28, 2017  By Matt Grant   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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Eating California’s Most Controversial Ice Cream

On the Humphry Slocombe Foie Gras Ice Cream Sandwiches

June 28, 2017  By Amy Ettinger   Posted In  Features  Food  News and Culture 
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Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

Or, How to Use Knowledge Ethically

June 28, 2017  By Nicole B. Wallack   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 27, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading “The Lottery” in 2017

Shirley Jackson's Classic Fable is Always Relevant to America

June 27, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean

Thoughts on Poverty, Misery, and the Great Revolutions of History

June 27, 2017  By Hannah Arendt   Posted In  Longform  News and Culture  Politics 
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It Costs $55 to Learn How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind

Daryl Gregory Visits the World of Alternative Energy

June 27, 2017  By Daryl Gregory   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture  Science 
1

A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

Silas Dent Zobal on Learning to Hit and Hitting Others

June 27, 2017  By Silas Dent Zobal   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
0

When a Bookseller Tries to Buy a Bookstore

Five Questions for Brad Johnson, Who Might Just Live the Dream...

June 27, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction

June 27, 2017  By Tom Bouman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Alexandra Fuller: Fairy Tales on the Frontlines (and Other Books)

The Author of Quiet Until the Thaw on the Books in Her Life

June 27, 2017  By Alexandra Fuller   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Angel For A Day

Ch'ae Manshik (Trans. by Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton)

“Today is the day.”

June 27, 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: Food, Family, and Fairy Tale Horror

Amy Thielen, Sherman Alexie, and Victor LaValle

June 27, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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The Rise of Women-Only Literary Spaces, UK Edition

The First in a Series on Safe Publishing Spaces for Women Around the World

June 26, 2017  By Thea Hawlin   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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Was Jane Eyre Written as a Secret Love Letter?

An Autobiography Transformed Into a Novel

June 26, 2017  By John Pfordresher   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Naomi Klein: People Are Ready to Vote For Something, Not Just Against It

On the Success of Jeremy Corbyn and the Failings of the Democratic Party

June 26, 2017  By Christopher Lydon   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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