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Lit Hub Weekly: March 12 – 16, 2018
TODAY: In 1948, author of Neuromancer and pioneer of the Cyber Punk genre, William Gibson is born. “Union was an admirable goal, but Whitman never fully learned a main lesson of the Civil War: it...
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Shannon Leone Fowler on Traveling After Her Fiancé’s Death
Karen Joy Fowler: When you were in the fourth grade, you wrote a book called The Zookeeper Capers. I think the narrator was a chimp? Shannon Leone Fowler: Yes, it was from the point of view of a...
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At the Intersection of Nationalism, Religion, and Social Media
Earlier this month, mob attacks on Sri Lanka’s minority Muslim community prompted a state of emergency in that country, and a temporary ban on Facebook and other social media platforms. In this episode...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
I’ll be heading uptown on Saturday to join the March for Our Lives protest, weird snowstorm be damned (though by then the city may be tropical—who knows! Global warming!). Both of my parents are...
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From Renee Gladman to Uljana Wolf: 10 Small Press Books to Check Out
As the nation’s only nonprofit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
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On Writing the Comics—and Queer Characters—We Need
We asked Hugo Award-winning authors Neil Gaiman and N.K. Jemisin to sit down and talk about books, writing, comics and whatever else came to mind. What followed was a wide-ranging discussion of...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of the Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff Loved This Week
To prepare for a three hour car ride with an oft-carsick dog and a toddler who hates his car seat this weekend, I’ve spent my evenings searching Spotify playlists to calm the nerves (hoping to...
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Alberto Manguel on Reading Aloud to Borges
In this episode of A Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber talks to Argentine-Canadian translator and essayist Alberto Manguel. The two discuss writing about imaginary places, being a reader to Jorge...
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20 Books You Should Read This April
Leslie Jamison, The Recovering (Little, Brown and Company) I’ve been looking forward to Leslie Jamison’s new book The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath since we spoke about it two years ago....
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About Parenting, Faith, and Intoxication
A conversation between Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, and Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon. * Jamie Quatro: I’m thrilled to have this conversation with...
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Meg Wolitzer Goes To the Lighthouse Again and Again
Meg Wolitzer’s latest book, The Female Persuasion, is available now from Riverhead. What was the first book you fell in love with? Charlotte’s Web. I sat in my mother’s lap and cried over it. The novel...
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All Fiction is Crime Fiction
In this episode, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell examine the omnipresent American comfort narrative of mystery and crime fiction. Why do we love crime stories so much? How do they shape the way...
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How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color?
The dynamic in a writing workshop reflects the larger political movements in literature, while engaging the voices that shape the direction of future writing. Because of this, Creative Writing Programs...
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4 Poems by Lola Ridge
Brooklyn Bridge Pythoness body—arching Over the night like an ecstasy— I feel your coils tightening. . . And the world’s lessening breath. (Ghetto) __________________________________ Debris I love...
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See Yoko Tawada and Tatyana Tolstaya Read Their Stories
Last month, writers Yoko Tawada and Tatyana Tolstaya read at 92Y’s Poetry Center. Watch (and read!) excerpts from their new books. * Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was...
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The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Children’s Books
Almost everyone agrees that it’s a good thing to read books to your children. Sure, it bolsters language skills, concentration, empathy and curiosity, and probably it strengthens the bond between...
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Josh Gondelman: I Kind of Got Bullied Into My Career
But That’s Another Story is the new podcast about how books change our lives, hosted by Will Schwalbe, bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living. In this episode, Will...
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Gregory Pardlo: How to Pretend You’ve Read a Book You Haven’t
Gregory Pardlo’s latest book, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, is available now from Knopf. What was the first book you fell in love with? Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade...
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Get Yourself to The Believer Festival
Last spring, The Believer magazine made an unlikely move from San Francisco’s Mission District—where it was founded at McSweeney’s by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park and Vendela Vida—to the heart of Las Vegas,...
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