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Best of the Week: January 19 – 22, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 23, 2016  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Writing While Black

On Cliche, Stereotype, and the Struggle to Describe Blackness

January 22, 2016  By Morgan Jerkins   Posted In  News and Culture  Politics 
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Are the Kids All Right?

Larry Clark's Proto-Hipster Teen Grotesque Turns 20

January 22, 2016  By Moira Weigel   Posted In  Film and TV  History  News and Culture 
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LitHub Daily: January 22, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 22, 2016  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog!

Michele Filgate Talks to Edan Lepucki About West Coast Writing Community

January 22, 2016  By Michele Filgate   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation 
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Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Janeway

"It’s summer up here by the sea; the gaily colored bathing huts glow in the sun. Stefan Zweig is sitting in a loggia on the fourth floor of a white house that faces onto the broad boulevard of Ostend, looking at the water."

January 22, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  History  News and Culture  On Translation 
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10 Over 75: A Reading List of the Old and Wise

Over Eight Hundred Years of the Writing Life, From Athill to Wouk

January 21, 2016  By Bethanne Patrick   Posted In  Reading Lists 
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The Importance of Reading While Pregnant

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Parenting Books

January 21, 2016  By Yardenne Greenspan   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
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LitHub Daily: January 21, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 21, 2016  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Core of the Sun

Johanna Sinisalo, Trans. Lola Rogers

"When you’ve moved in under the same roof with an eloi, it is good to acquaint yourself with an eloi’s way of thinking in order to establish rules and help her adjust to them."

January 21, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  On Translation 
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A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

In Which Food Poisoning is Diagnosed as "Culture Shock"

January 21, 2016  By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman   Posted In  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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David L. Ulin, Lisa Levy, and Others To Join Lit Hub’s Masthead

Rick Moody, Catherine Talese, Yahdon Israel, Caitlin Goodman, Lucy Kogler...

January 20, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture 
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There’s No Place For Joy in Today’s Moscow

Sergei Lebedev Mourns a City Sealed in Silence

January 20, 2016  By Sergei Lebedev   Posted In  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Librarian Confidential: Stephanie Anderson

In Conversation with the Head of Readers' Advisory at Darien Library

January 20, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation  News and Culture 
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LitHub Daily: January 20, 2016

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The Blue Line

Ingrid Betancourt

"She must have been five years old the first time it happened. She was living in Colonia del Sacramento, in Uruguay, in an old house behind the port, overlooking the estuary."

January 20, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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The Democrats’ Secret Debating Society, Part IV

Translating the Euphemisms of Bernie and Hillary

January 20, 2016  By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf   Posted In  Events  News and Culture  Politics 
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Williams Gibson: On Technophobia and the Power of Film

The Second Part of Paul Holdengraber's conversation with William Gibson

January 20, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  A Phone Call From Paul  Lit Hub Radio 
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The Staff Shelf: Kramerbooks & Afterwords

What are booksellers reading?

January 20, 2016  By Interview with a Bookstore   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

Barry Gifford on the Long Wait for Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel

January 19, 2016  By Barry Gifford   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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