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Garth Greenwell on Defeating the Conception of Categorization
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Garth Greenwell takes the call from Paul Holdengraber to discuss his latest book, Cleanness, out now from FSG. From the episode: Garth Greenwell: I...
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14 Books You Should Read in February
Jenny Offill, Weather (Knopf) The only book you need this February is Weather. It might be short, but it invites rereading, filled as it is with jokes, wry asides, brilliant observations, and, you...
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Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women Tell the Truth
What if we believed women? That’s the question at the heart of the new anthology Believe Me, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti which gathers together more than two-dozen leading voices on...
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Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks
Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch is out now from Riverhead. She spoke with us about the art that moves her, the writing advice that sustains her, and how she manages her creative process. * Who do you most...
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Booksellers! Apply for an International Bookselling Fellowship
Bookselling Without Borders is a global partnership of independent publishers that supports travel to international book fairs and residencies for booksellers. It is currently accepting applications...
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Few Were As Devoted to Poetry and Friendship as Harry Mathews
Poet, novelist, and essayist Harry Mathews died in 2017 at the age of 86. Literary Hub spoke with author Arlo Haskell, a longtime friend of Mathews’, on the occasion of the release of Mathews’...
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To face climate disaster, the protagonist of Jenny Offill’s new book...
The protagonist of Jenny Offill’s new novel, Weather, is Lizzie Benson, a graduate school dropout turned college librarian who is armed with random information and really good at suggesting ways to...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Parasite, Roadhouse, and a Children’s Book About Marijuana
“How does one lose an accent?” That’s the question that begins “Volver, Volver,” the first poem I ever heard from Ariana Brown, whose work explores power, politics, and healing in the context of queer...
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Colum McCann on Ulysses, Mary Lavin, and Drinking with John Berger
Colum McCann’s new novel, Apeirogon, is out now from Random House, so we asked him to take our writer’s questionnaire. * Who do you most wish would read your book? I’d like the late great John Berger,...
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Erik Larson on Writing Wartime Life During the London Blitz
Erik Larson’s The Splendid and The Vile, which recounts life in London during the WWII German bombing campaign of 1940 and ’41, and Winston Churchill’s handling of the Battle of Britain, is available...
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Who should star in the upcoming BBC adaptation of Conversations With Friends?
Sally Rooney’s takeover of the world continues apace today with the announcement that the Irish literary phenom’s debut novel Conversations With Friends will be adapted into a twelve-part series for...
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Mahogany L. Browne on Audre Lorde and Tools for Liberation
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, published this month by Penguin Vitae, presents a collection of essays and speeches from the groundbreaking feminist writer. We asked poet Mahogany L. Browne, who penned...
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Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power
The John Steinbeck Award is presented annually by San José State University to writers, artists, thinkers, and activists whose work captures Steinbeck’s empathy, commitment to democratic values, and...
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Dorothea Lasky and Julia Guez: On Queenliness, Metaphysics, and Book Tour
Dorothea Lasky, author of Animal, and Julia Guez, author of In An Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame, sat down to discuss selflessness and ego in poetry, finding harmony in a poem, and the...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 200 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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10 Books You Should Read in March
Lily King, Writers and Lovers (Grove Press) Lily King is back with Writers and Lovers, a story about everything we like best: relationships, sex, grief, and most importantly, writing. King writes...
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Lorrie Moore on the Songs She Couldn’t Live Without
Lorrie Moore’s Collected Stories is available now from Everyman’s Library, so we asked her a few questions about her life as a writer. * Who do you most wish would read your stories? Every writer I...
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In Memory of Krishna Baldev Vaid, Pioneer of Modern Hindi Fiction
After having lived a long life, and having practiced the art of writing for over seven decades, Krishna Baldev Vaid breathed his last in New York on February 6, 2020. A pioneer in modern Hindi fiction,...
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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Paul Lisicky (Later: My Life at the Edge of the World) Kevin...
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5 Shakespeare Scholars on the Past, Present, and Future of Theater Amid COVID-19
It’s strange to think that on the day we began contemplating a roundtable to mark William Shakespeare’s 456th birthday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo created a containment zone in the city of New...
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