5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This is one for the introverts—the wary and the peevish, the uncertain of their looks, taste, talent and class status.”

March 6, 2025  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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You Cannot Go to Your Country: Victoria Amelina on the Start of War in Ukraine

From Her Unfinished Book, “Looking at Women Looking at War”

March 6, 2025  By Victoria Amelina   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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The Edge of the Abyss: William Styron at 100

Greg Cwik on the Complex, Melancholic World of Styron’s Novels

March 6, 2025  By Greg Cwik   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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“Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

Spencer Reece Considers the Life and Work of Jaime Gil de Biedma

March 6, 2025  By Spencer Reece   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Politics 
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Seven Novels That Explore Friendship In All Its Messy, Complex Beauty

Jeremy Gordon Recommends Yukio Mishima, Elena Ferrante, Daniel Clowes, and More

March 6, 2025  By Jeremy Gordon   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

March 6, 2025  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

Sophie Strand Explores the Limitations of Traditional Ideas About Disease, Trauma and Healing

March 6, 2025  By Sophie Strand   Posted In  Features  Health  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Karen Weingarten on Abortion Stories

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

March 6, 2025  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

Colwill Brown

March 6, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

March 6, 2025  By Sun Valley Writers' Conference   Posted In  Beyond the Page  Climate Change  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio 
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An Indiana bill is threatening Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

But America's sweetheart is prepared to fight and scratch.

March 5, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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A Small Press Book We Love:
The President’s Room by Ricardo Romero

March 5, 2025  By Drew Broussard   Posted In  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: March 5, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

March 5, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

Dr. Seema Jilani Reckons with the Hypocrisy of Western Liberal Institutions

March 5, 2025  By Seema Jilani   Posted In  Health  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”

March 5, 2025  By Emily Hodgson Anderson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Dear Jimi Hendrix: A Letter, in Gratitude, From Jeffery Renard Allen

“Know that I carry you everywhere, that you more than anyone on this planet have shaped me as a writer.”

March 5, 2025  By Jeffery Renard Allen   Posted In  Biography  Features  Music 
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The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

Nicole Graev Lipson Reflects on Thoreau, the Self, and the Frenzy of Parenting

March 5, 2025  By Nicole Graev Lipson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

Julie Zigoris on the Resilience of Booksellers

March 5, 2025  By Julie Zigoris   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Climate Change  Features  News and Culture 
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Patchworks of Memory: Quilting Remembrance and Healing

Lisa Gail Collins on the Creative Traditions of a Black Farming Community in Alabama

March 5, 2025  By Lisa Gail Collins   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“The Old Current,” a Poem by Brad Leithauser

From the Collection “The Old Current”

March 5, 2025  By Brad Leithauser   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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