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Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis

Matthew Zapruder on How One Imagination Can Activate Another

December 6, 2016  By Matthew Zapruder   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
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Do Not be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight

Mitch Sisskind

“Tokyo Lipscomb, a third-year student at Penn, and a few other girls move into a new apartment and find themselves next door to a turned-out ex-ballplayer named George Henry. Neighbors insist that George Henry vanished ten years earlier—but remember, Tokyo Lipscomb and the other girls are living next door to him.”

December 6, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

How a Great American Literary Critic Got it Wrong About a Classic

December 6, 2016  By Alex Beam   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

Eileen Myles, Ruth Ozeki, Porochista Khakpour,
Anna March & Alexandra Kleeman

December 6, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

Mark Haber on the Newly Translated Ema the Captive

December 6, 2016  By Mark Haber   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Watch James Toback Tell The Story of Getting Punched by Norman Mailer

Apparently, the key to being a great American writer is: bourbon

December 6, 2016  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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LitHub Daily: December 5, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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For Writers Who Are Also the Mothers of Small Children

Marcy Dermansky on Her Two Jobs: Parent, Writer

December 5, 2016  By Marcy Dermansky   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
4

From Hemingway to Kathy Acker: Making Art from the Outside

Ellena Savage on the Struggle to Write and Make a Living at the Same Time

December 5, 2016  By Ellena Savage   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
3

Watch Joan Didion Talk About Writing as Aggression

Happy 82nd Birthday, Joan!

December 5, 2016  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America’s Soul

Scott Esposito Looks to Art for Salvation

December 5, 2016  By Veronica Esposito   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
1

Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

Rajat Singh on the Tangible Power of Political Poetry

December 5, 2016  By Rajat Singh   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Autograph of Steve Industry

Ben Hersey

“On stage with my band, The Steamrollers, and we’re a long way from home mid-song. That’s a good one, a feeling. My eyes closed and Toby and Gardenhose behind me are synched up and the gravity of the music is thick while the air-floor is ripe and deep.”

December 5, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

Katharine Noel on the Centrality of Sibling Relationships to YA

December 2, 2016  By Katharine Noel   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Maybe It’s Time to Leave the Earth…

On the Best Ways for the Human Race to Keep Going in Space

December 2, 2016  By Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Science 
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8 Great Movies Based on Unusual Literary Source Material

Putting all those old letters and Arlo Guthrie songs to use

December 2, 2016  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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Sing the Song

Meredith Alling

“A stubborn hand is taking me away. I pluck a raspberry from a bush and launch it with my thumb. My ankles drag on the ground. The damp air wets my hair. 'What in the fuck,' I croak.”

December 2, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Fiction and Poetry  Short Stories  Short Story 
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