The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2022

Featuring Bob Dylan, Elena Ferrante, Zora Neale Hurston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Melissa Febos, and More

December 16, 2022  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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“I Didn’t Ask to Be Here.” Or: How Do We Find Value in This Life?

Nick Riggle on Ocean Vuong and the Mysterious Beauty of Being Alive

December 16, 2022  By Nick Riggle   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Rabih Alameddine Recommends the Best (Short) Books He Read in 2022

One of Our Very Favorite Lit Hub Traditions

December 16, 2022  By Rabih Alameddine   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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The Best Reviewed Poetry Collections of 2022

Featuring Ada Limón, Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and More

December 16, 2022  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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What Makes Writing Valuable?

William Pierce Addresses a Fraught Subject

December 16, 2022  By William Pierce   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Two Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Cristina Viti

From the Collection La rabbia/Anger

December 16, 2022  By Pier Paolo Pasolini and Cristina Viti   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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What’s So Bad About Melodrama? In Defense of Forgotten Classic Random Harvest

Meg Walters Revisits the Adaptation for Its 80th Anniversary

December 16, 2022  By Meg Walters   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

On Drama, Suspense, Violence, Psychology, and a Dose of Soul

December 16, 2022  By Jess Walter   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

“Sometimes I think about the fortunate writers who didn’t have to contend with our amplified level of distractions.”

December 16, 2022  By Priyanka Kumar   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Nature  News and Culture  Technology 
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Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home by Marie Kondo, Read by Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Finding the Ideal Way to Spend Our Time

December 16, 2022  By Behind the Mic    Posted In  Behind the Mic  Design  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Style 
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Septology

Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls)

December 16, 2022  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Exclusive cover reveal: Here’s the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth

December 15, 2022  By Literary Hub   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: December 15, 2022

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 15, 2022  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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50 Gift Books for Everyone on Your List

You Get a Book! You Get a Book! Everybody Gets a Book!!

December 15, 2022  By Katie Yee   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2022

On Wednesdays We Read Lit Hub

December 15, 2022  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Climate Change  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  Nature  Politics  Reading Lists  Technology 
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Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Book Recommendations for the Troubled Soul

December 15, 2022  By Dorothea    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Health  Literary Criticism 
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The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

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

December 15, 2022  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Politics 
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For the Win: 10 Literary Games that’ll Make Great Holiday Gifts

(Bookish) Fun for the Whole Family!

December 15, 2022  By Katie Yee   Posted In  Features 
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How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

December 15, 2022  By Nino Strachey   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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Qian Julie Wang: How Does It Feel When Obama Selects Your Book As One of His Favorites of the Year?

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

December 15, 2022  By Twitterverse    Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Twitterverse 
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