5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This is a very smart book. I’m not sure that’s a compliment.”

June 6, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Acknowledging the Labor That Goes in a Single Title

June 6, 2024  By Maris Kreizman   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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D-Day, 80 Years On: An Oral History of the Allies’ Bold Attack

Garrett M. Graff on the First Hours of the Invasion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe

June 6, 2024  By Garrett M. Graff   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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My Friend, the Legendary Porn Queen

Catherine Gigante-Brown on Jane Kamensky’s Biography of Candida Royalle

June 6, 2024  By Catherine Gigante-Brown   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

Gina Frangello Considers Her Personal History in Relation to the Neapolitan Quartet

June 6, 2024  By Gina Frangello   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

Claire Kilroy Considers Women’s Work at Home and on the Page

June 6, 2024  By Claire Kilroy   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth

Kyle Dillon Hertz on the Book That Guided His Ambition to Be a Writer

June 6, 2024  By Kyle Dillon Hertz   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Morgan Talty Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Anton Chekhov, Nick Rees Gardner, Joseph Osmundson, Others

June 6, 2024  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Swift River

Essie Chambers

June 6, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

June 6, 2024  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Nature 
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Why are so many adults still obsessed with Busytown?

June 5, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  The Hub 
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Romance Writers of America has filed for bankruptcy. What’s next?

June 5, 2024  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 5, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 5, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

Janet Manley Considers Mommy Bloggers, Domestic Novels, and Children as Muses

June 5, 2024  By Janet Manley   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir 
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Can We Reschedule? In Praise of Carl Sagan, Iconic Pothead

Gabrielle Bellot on the Many Benefits of Marijuana (and a Man Who Was Ahead of His Time)

June 5, 2024  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Health  Science 
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“It’s Not Just About the Job.” Between Humanity and Productivity in the Workplace

Mark Larson Explores the Impact and Consequences of the Depersonalization of Labor in 21st-Century America

June 5, 2024  By Mark Larson   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer

Peyton Marshall on Overcoming the Shame of Taking Time to Write and Revise Her Debut, “Goodhouse”

June 5, 2024  By Peyton Marshall   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Confronting the Abject: What Gaza Can Teach Us About the Struggles That Shape Our World

Tareq Baconi on Overcoming Shared Helplessness and Working Towards Liberation in Palestine and Beyond

June 5, 2024  By Tareq Baconi   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Appreciating the Understated Complexity of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Nick Hornby Remembers His Friend and Fellow Author, Melissa Bank

June 5, 2024  By Nick Hornby   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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How the Labor of Enslaved Black Men Built the White House

Corey Mead on the Construction of America's New Capital City

June 5, 2024  By Corey Mead   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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