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Service

John Tottenham

 
By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 9, 2025
Poetry

“Sexting is Roleplay About Desire,” a Prose Poem by Vera Blossom

By Vera Blossom  December 10, 2024
Self-Discovery

“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

By Constance Debré  April 5, 2024
Queer Lit

Edgy, Unapologetic, and Transgressive: 8 Books That Seek to Unsettle the Reader

By Kevin Lambert  December 8, 2022
Daily Fiction

Love Me Tender

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2022
Shelf Talkers

Shelf Talkers: What Booksellers Are Reading at Third Place Books

By Corinne Segal  July 29, 2022
Reading

On Finding the Book That Returns You to Your Body

By Dodie Bellamy  October 20, 2021
Reading Lists

Searching For Myself in Working Class Art

By Cynthia Cruz  July 15, 2021
Directors

Ingmar Bergman Made a Movie For Each One of His Fears

By Masha Tupitsyn  November 22, 2019
Art History

Michel Leiris on the Details That Make Great Art

By Michel Leiris  June 10, 2019
Technology

Heike Geissler’s Grim Account of
the Amazon Workplace

By Monika Zaleska  April 16, 2019
Feature

What to Read While You’re Recovering from Top Surgery

By Davey Davis  January 2, 2019
Excerpts

“Bachelors Get Lonely”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 12, 2018
Excerpts

The Novelist Who Works as a “Seasonal Associate” at Amazon

By Heike Geissler  December 10, 2018
Excerpts

Break.up

By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 1, 2018
Deep Dive

Pursuing the Artfully Naked “I”: The Myth-Making of Kathy Acker

By Chris Kraus  August 18, 2017
Short story writers

Another Morocco

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 31, 2017
Short story writers

The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 23, 2016
Feature

Writing Must Explore Its Relation To Power

By Robert Glück  June 27, 2016
Feature

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

By Dodie Bellamy  November 6, 2015

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