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A First Look at the 2019 Mission Creek Festival Literary Line-Up
Tickets go on sale today for the 14th-annual Mission Creek Festival, which will be held in Iowa City April 2–7, 2019. Since 2006, Mission Creek Festival has hosted some of the nation’s premier literary...
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What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?
What was the first book you fell in love with? We asked this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize shortlisters about their earliest love affairs with reading. Meet them all at the Finalist...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2019: 50 to 41
Politicians, plagiarists, poets: over the next few days we’ll be looking back at the year in letters, a 2018 that felt just a bit more unhinged than 2017, which itself was a tad weirder than 2016,...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2019: 40 to 31
Head here to read part one of the countdown, stories 50 to 41. * 40. “WTF?!” Says Most of Book World as Sean Spicer Invited to Book Expo Back in June, BookExpo America (BEA) invited former Trump Press...
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Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 30 to 21
Head here to read part one of the countdown, stories 50 to 41, and here, for 40 to 31. * 30. For the First Time Ever a Graphic Novel, Sabrina, is Nominated for the Man Booker Prize Nick Drnaso’s...
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Athletes, Politics, and Power: Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and Etan Thomas...
In this live episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, recorded at the 2018 Miami Book Fair, writers Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and Etan Thomas talk to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney...
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Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 20 to 11
Head here to read part one of the countdown, stories 50 to 41, here, for 40 to 31, and here for 30 to 21. 20. Ripping Off Writers Becomes Popular New Pastime In May, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk...
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Tin House Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue Will Be Its Last
From Tin House publisher and editor-in-chief, Win McCormack: Tin House magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue, to be published in June 2019, will be the publication’s last. I’m grateful to Rob Spillman,...
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Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of the Year: 10 to 5
10. The Year of James Baldwin (Probably Next Year, Too) Here at Lit Hub, we’ve always been big admirers of James Baldwin, and we’d like to formally register the fact that Baldwin has always been...
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Lit Hub Recommends (Party Overload Edition): Food, TV, and Video Games
It’s the season of mandatory cheer, and I am thoroughly exhausted. I usually need at least a week to recover from any party. I’m already a festive shell of myself and it’s only December 14th. I do...
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
In my Mojave culture, many of our songs are maps, but not in the sense of an American map. Mojave song-maps do not draw borders or boundaries, do not say this is knowable, or defined, or mine. Instead...
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Jodie Foster on Her All-Time Favorite Book
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. There are so many reasons to read, but two of my favorites seem to contradict each other. On the one hand, I read...
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Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories from 2018
It’s hard to find anyone who will speak of 2018 as a great year—for people, politics, the planet—so we’re not exactly sad to see it go. We are glad, however, for some of the wonderful stories we had a...
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The Ten Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2018
In a year that saw the end of true internet virality (thanks Facebook!), we nonetheless had our best yet, thanks in part to the following ten stories. Ranging in readership from 500,000 to 100,000,...
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New Poetry By Indigenous Women: Looking Back at 2018
This year, Lit Hub is proud to have been home to a bi-monthly series curated by 2018 MacArthur fellow Natalie Diaz, featuring new poetry by Indigenous women. You can read each installment of the series...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Long Sentences, Holiday Classics, Not Christmas
For my annual pilgrimage to the Emerald Isle I will again partake in my usual overload of British television: cooking shows, quiz shows, and Christmas football. In addition to enjoying a hot port at...
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Bich Minh Nguyen on the Refugee Experience of Holiday Narratives
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, fiction writer and memoirist Bich Minh Nguyen talks to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about her history as a refugee, recent news...
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Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 5 to 1
5. Multiple Women Report Mistreatment and Harassment by Sherman Alexie In February, writer Litsa Dremousis wrote on Twitter that “over 20” women alleged harassment by Sherman Alexie and encouraged...
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13 Books You Should Read This January
Sam Lipsyte, Hark (Picador) Sam Lipsyte’s Home Land is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. It was the first book I gave my fiancé, and it was 100% just a gift and not a humor test. If Lipsyte...
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Sam Sanders on Reading, Race, and Covering Politics in America
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. Everywhere I go, I’m always asking people, what are you reading? It can be hard—especially these days—to keep ourselves from...
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