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The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto
Translated by Larissa Kyzer. We’re on Flatey, a small island in an archipelago in West Iceland. These islands are clustered in Breiðafjörður, a fjord that Icelanders often talk about in metaphorical...
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The Academy of American Poets Announces Their 12 Poem-a-Day Editors for 2020.
The Academy of American Poets has announced their twelve Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2020. The twelve guest editors are: January: Meg Day February: Roger Reeves...
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Announcing the line-up for this year’s Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City.
The 15th Annual Mission Creek Festival, an indie music and lit mainstay, will be held in Iowa City on April 1-4, 2020. The great thing about Mission Creek is the way it aspires to turn music lovers...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Downton Abbey and Metamorphoses
Lately I’ve begun my day by reading Ruth Stone poems. She lived into her late 90s and was writing great ones till the end. Luxurious and plain-spoken, radical in their humanity. So chiseled they felt...
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Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 300 features a month. And while we are proud of all the 3,000+ pieces we’ve shared in 2019, we do have our personal favorites....
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The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part 1
I’m biased, but I think that booksellers are the most generous, thoughtful, and devoted readers we have. Generous, because they read with one eye always on other readers, often making mental lists of...
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The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Two
This part two of our year-end series wherein we ask booksellers to tell us about the highlights of their year in reading. Head over here to read part one. * Justin Walls, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills...
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The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three
This is the third and final part of our year-end series wherein we ask booksellers to tell us about the highlights of their year in reading. You can read parts one and two over here. * Jeff Waxman,...
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press
In 2020, the Feminist Press turns 50 years old. And if we’re allowed to say so ourselves, it feels like a monumental accomplishment for a small, nonprofit press with a mission that has, over the years,...
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12 Books You Should Read in January
Editors’ Note: This month, in addition to our January recommendations from staff and contributors, we’re including a few picks from December—they were just too good to leave in 2019. Anna Wiener,...
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Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood
Chuck Palahniuk’s latest, Consider This, is available now. * Lit Hub: What do you always want to talk about in interviews but never get to? Chuck Palahniuk: “Young people are always looking for a...
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J.M. Barrie’s Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan
“Second to the right and straight on till morning”: can there be anyone unfamiliar with those famous directions to the enchanted and imaginary world of Neverland? The story of Peter Pan—“the boy who...
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Introducing Belletrist’s Studio Sessions, Episode One: Illustrator Cecilia Ruiz
The folks behind Belletrist—which is so much more than a beloved Bookstagram account—are debuting a short video documentary series, Studio Sessions, in which they take a behind-the-scenes look at the...
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Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John...
We asked writer Steve Inskeep (who knows a thing or two about interviews) a few questions about his new book Imperfect Union (Penguin Press), an engaging history of the adventures of John and Jessie...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Considering the fact that it was the end of the decade, and that we’re all trying to distract ourselves from the encroaching heat death of the planet, it’s not surprising that the 2019/2020 list season...
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What is Lost When an Oral Culture Disappears?
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Lewis Hyde takes the call from Paul Holdengraber to discuss his latest book, A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past, out now from FSG. From the...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Brokeback Mountain, Easy, and John Mulaney
How do you hold history if it’s not entirely your own? With your hands, your tongue? What to do when it’s being forgotten? To read Monica Sok’s debut collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On, is to ask...
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How a Book Cover Gets Made: Nicole Caputo on Belletrist’s Studio Sessions
The folks behind Belletrist—which is so much more than a beloved Bookstagram account—are debuting a short video documentary series, Studio Sessions, in which they take a behind-the-scenes look at the...
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Belletrist Studio Sessions: Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves
The folks behind Belletrist—which is so much more than a beloved Bookstagram account—are debuting a short video documentary series, Studio Sessions, in which they take a behind-the-scenes look at the...
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15 Essential Colombian Novels You Should Read
Fifteen years ago Hay Festival organizers were so desperate to book Gabriel Garcia Marquez that when he said he wouldn’t travel to them they decided to take their event to him. And so, Hay Festival...
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