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How to Write Coincidence the Right Way

From E.M. Forster to Flannery O'Connor, how writers manipulate all of us

August 26, 2016  By Alice Mattison   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
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How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game

And What it Taught Me About Pushing through Writer's Block

August 26, 2016  By M. Sophia Newman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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Why Can’t Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

Brendan Mac Evilly Goes in Search of a Nice Spot to Swim

August 26, 2016  By Brendan Mac Evilly   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Nature  News and Culture  Travel 
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Rest in Peace, Community Bookstore

Remembering a Brooklyn Literary Institution

August 26, 2016  By Daniel Roberts   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture 
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LitHub Daily: August 25, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 25, 2016  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Glorious Heresies

Lisa McInerney

"He left the boy outside its own front door. Farewell to it, and good luck to it."

August 25, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Who Am I: Writer or Bookseller?

Here’s a book Ben wrote. He works here. If you don’t buy it, he might cry.

August 25, 2016  By Benjamin Rybeck   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
2

In Defense of Trash

Why Pleasures Should Never Be Guilty, From Valley of the Dolls to Bonkbusters

August 25, 2016  By Lisa Levy   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
13

Men of Power and Their Obsession with Winston Churchill

Visiting the World's Foremost (and Only) Bookstore Devoted to Churchill

August 25, 2016  By Anthony Audi   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  History  News and Culture 
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There is No Secret to Writing About People Who Do Not Look Like You

Brandon Taylor on the Importance of Empathy As Craft

August 25, 2016  By Brandon Taylor   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
45

Five Reasons Why Writers Should Move to Columbus

Forget New York and Get Yourself West to Ohio

August 25, 2016  By Annie McGreevy   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
11

Announcing the Winners of PEN Center USA’s 2016 Literary Awards

Celebrating the Work of Sandra Cisneros, Jill Leovy, and Others

August 25, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture 
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LitHub Daily: August 24, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 24, 2016  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Don’t I Know You?

Marni Jackson

“If it snows overnight, the silence in the early morning has a different quality, as if a duvet has fallen over the city. I lay there wondering how deep it was. Then I heard the scrape of a shovel, like winter clearing its throat. Our neighbor Barry was already out there, even before the snow had stopped or the plows came through. Sometimes it’s a lovely sound, shoveling. Sometimes not.”

August 24, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
1

Islamophobia in the Trial of Adnan Syed

Rabia Chaudry on America's Anti-Muslim industry

August 24, 2016  By Rabia Chaudry   Posted In  Biography  News and Culture  Politics 
1

Tracy K. Smith on God, Poetry, and Parenting in New York City

The Poet and Memoirist Talks to Paul Holdengraber

August 24, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  A Phone Call From Paul  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio 
2

How to Write While Traveling

Andrés Neuman's Fragments from a Latin American Book Tour

August 24, 2016  By Andrés Neuman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  News and Culture  Travel 
2

The Grumpy Librarian: Books with Allegorical Animals and A Lot of Sex

Recommendations with lyricism, sentimentality, and philosophical complications

August 24, 2016  By Caitlin Goodman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Reading Lists 
2

The Woman Who Launched a Newspaper During WWII

On the Messy First Issue of Alicia Patterson's Newsday

August 24, 2016  By Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen   Posted In  Biography  News and Culture 
2

The Body is Alive and Awake, the Spirit a Decision Problem

A New Poem by Anaïs Duplan

August 24, 2016  By Anaïs Duplan   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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