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Slow Days, Fast Company

Eve Babitz

“It’s well known that for something to be fiction it must move right along and not meander among the bushes gazing into the next county. Unfortunately, with L.A. it’s impossible. You can’t write a story about L.A. that doesn’t turn around in the middle or get lost."

August 29, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Biography  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Memoir  News and Culture  Travel 
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I Love Soap Operas (And They Made Me a Better Writer)

Deborah Shapiro on the Genre's Throwback Novelistic Qualities

August 29, 2016  By Deborah Shapiro   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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Writing a Novel Limited to the 483 Words Spoken by Ophelia

Scott Esposito in Conversation with Paul Griffiths about let me tell you

August 29, 2016  By Veronica Esposito   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation 
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Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

Fredrik Sjöberg on Parables, Flies, and the Sea

August 29, 2016  By Fredrik Sjöberg   Posted In  Biography  Memoir  News and Culture  Travel 
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Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov… He Scores!

Memorializing Greatness in Sport is as Complex as Imagining
One's Own Immortality

August 29, 2016  By Andrew Stark   Posted In  News and Culture  Religion  Sports 
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Best of the Week: August 22 – 26, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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The Legend of Jesse Smoke

Robert Bausch

“The first time I saw Jesse Smoke throw a football I knew she was going to be a miracle. I never saw anything like it, and I’d been in the game, professionally, more than thirty years; I saw John Elway, Dan Marino, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady. Hell, I remember films of Johnny Unitas and Sonny Jurgensen. I’d been a scout, an assistant, and even for a very short time, head coach.”

August 26, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Jacqueline Woodson on Brooklyn and the Brilliance of Black Girls

The Author of Brown Girl Dreaming in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

August 26, 2016  By Bethanne Patrick   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation 
2

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

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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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