“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”

April 19, 2024  By Leigh Stein   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Music  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: April 19, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

April 19, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

“At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.”

April 19, 2024  By Paul Yamazaki   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

April 19, 2024  By Ed Simon   Posted In  Biography  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Salman Rushdie, Caoilinn Hughes, Caleb Carr, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and More

April 19, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”

April 19, 2024  By Ryan Chapman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Memoir 
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Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

“Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.”

April 19, 2024  By Julia Alvarez   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

Erin Zimmerman on How Botany Helped to Complicate Our Views of Gender

April 19, 2024  By Erin Zimmerman   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Science 
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An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

Rahul Mehta Considers the Virtues of Public Space as Writing Space

April 19, 2024  By Rahul Mehta   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  News and Culture 
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Bitter Water Opera

Nicolette Polek

April 19, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

April 18, 2024  By Dan Sheehan   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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These are the “most influential” writers of the year.

April 18, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Against spring cleaning: The books the Lit Hub staff just can’t let go of.

April 18, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  Reading Lists  The Hub 
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Here are the finalists for the NYPL’s 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

April 18, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  Book News  Events  News and Culture  The Hub 
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The official trailer for One Hundred Years of Solitude is here.

April 18, 2024  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Film and TV  News and Culture  The Hub  Twitterverse 
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PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

April 18, 2024  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features  History  Politics  Religion 
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Lit Hub Daily: April 18, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

April 18, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Levine is a gifted performance artist of literary fiction—part French existentialist and part comic bomb-thrower.”

April 18, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

“I’ve grown to appreciate how aware of time I am, in a way that I wouldn’t be elsewhere.”

April 18, 2024  By Samantha Ladwig   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Features  News and Culture 
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Jeff Daniels on Getting Inside a Story

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

April 18, 2024  By Talk Easy   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  Lit Hub Radio  Talk Easy 
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