5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century.”

February 8, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Antiquity

Hanna Johansson (trans. Kira Josefsson)

February 8, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

February 8, 2024  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  Film and TV  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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Elizabeth Rush on the Thwaites Glacier

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

February 8, 2024  By Emergence Magazine   Posted In  Climate Change  Emergence Magazine  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Lit Hub Radio  Nature 
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Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

“You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”

February 7, 2024  By Karen Outen   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Lit Hub Daily: February 7, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

February 7, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

February 7, 2024  By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast 
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Fourteen Days

February 7, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

February 7, 2024  By Adam Greenhalgh   Posted In  Art and Photography  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton

February 7, 2024  By Gísli Pálsson   Posted In  Features  History  Nature  News and Culture  Science  Travel 
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To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Rebecca K Reilly on the Editors Who Told Her to Change Her Novel for an American Audience

February 7, 2024  By Rebecca K Reilly   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

“Styron reminds us that storytelling isn’t an intrusion upon the lives of others, but is in fact an affirmation of all that which connects us.”

February 7, 2024  By Andrew Ewell   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

February 7, 2024  By History of Literature   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  The History of Literature 
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Is the phrase The Tortured Poets Department grammatically correct?

February 6, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Israel has damaged or destroyed at least 13 libraries in Gaza.

February 6, 2024  By Dan Sheehan   Posted In  Book News  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Saul Bellow is now a stamp.

February 6, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: February 6, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

February 6, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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“D,” an Alphabetical Prose Experiment by Sheila Heti

From the Book “Alphabetical Diaries”

February 6, 2024  By Sheila Heti   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Supernatural Inheritance: On a Unique Family Gift That Crosses Continents

Margot Livesey Explores the Possibility of a Power Passed Down for Generations

February 6, 2024  By Margot Livesey   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“Flaubert Again”

Anne Carson

February 6, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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