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The Impossible Fairy Tale

Han Yujoo (trans. Janet Hong)

“Mia’s new desk mate at school twirls a mechanical pencil between her thumb and index finger. She draws a big heart in a corner of her notebook and says to Mia, If you can color the whole heart black with just one lead, the love of your dreams will come true.”

March 16, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Kanishk Tharoor on Writing Outside of Western Traditions

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What Did Hemingway Really Think of Castro?

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah is New York City’s First Book Club Pick

The Inaugural Winner of One Book, One New York

March 16, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  Features  News and Culture 
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30 Books in 30 Days: Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

Jane Ciabattari on Alice Kaplan's Literary Biography

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11 Women Writers in Response to Bonnie Nadzam’s Essay, "Experts in the Field"

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The Living Authors with the Most Film Adaptations

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The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

On Polyamory, Silicon Valley, and the Investigations of Emily Witt

March 15, 2017  By Dion Kagan   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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When Femininity is Code for Feelings

On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds

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Shot-Blue

Jesse Ruddock

“The guides took turns fishing off the dock, and it was Tristan’s turn for casting lessons at five o’clock. Five wasn’t a good time. The bass were stuffed from hunting in full sun.”

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How Working at a Bookstore Changed My Writing Career

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Girls, Interrupted: A Reading List of Female Madness

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March 15, 2017  By Felicia C. Sullivan   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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