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Laura van den Berg and Catherine Lacey on Making Peace With Where You’re From
This week on Well-Versed, Emily Bell, director and Executive Editor of FSG Originals, talks with writers Laura van den Berg (I Hold a Wolf By Its Ears) and Catherine Lacey (Pew) about their new books,...
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WATCH: Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell on Writing Advice, Favorite Teachers...
We’re very happy to introduce a new video series at Lit Hub to benefit the wonderful Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that teaches reading and writing to thousands of low-income and...
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Kimberly’s Story: How to Live in San Francisco During a Pandemic
Meet Kimberly, a young woman in San Francisco’s Mission District trying to navigate post-college life during the pandemic. This series is part of a project by Mission Local that looks at how the...
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Eight Books You Should Read This August
Lina Wolff (trans. Saskia Vogel), Many People Die Like You (And Other Stories) Lina Wolff’s The Polyglot Lovers (translated by Saskia Vogel) was one of my favorite books of 2019, an absolutely savage...
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WATCH: Jazz Pianist Marcus Roberts Get the Blues and Talks Musical Influences
This episode continues our video series at Lit Hub to benefit the wonderful Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that teaches reading and writing to thousands of low-income and marginalized...
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A Serial Online Novel Journeys Through a Queer, Eerie NYC During Shut Down
Carley Moore’s serialized online novel, Panpocalypse—illustrated by Neeti Banerji—tells the story of Orpheus, a queer disabled woman who rides her bike through New York City amid the coronavirus...
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What Do Paramilitaries in the Streets of Portland Signal for November?
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has begun pulling paramilitary forces from various domestic security agencies and dispatching them to domestic protests within the US. Headlines like the...
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On Writing a Character Who Confronts Middle Age and the Necessity of Change
Karolina Waclawiak, author of Life Events, and Laura van den Berg, author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, connected to talk about writing characters at a pivotal moment in their lives, the centrality of...
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WATCH: Jewel on Battling Anxiety, Living with Dyslexia and Finding Solace in...
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Lit Hub Recommends: A Burning, The Changeling, and Palm Springs
This month I’d like to recommend Dirty Dancing which, to my eternal shame, I had not seen until just last week. It is, of course, every bit as magnificent as I had been led to believe. I’ve also been...
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Long Live Enlightened Lebanon: A Letter from Arab Artists and Intellectuals
The terrible disaster that struck Beirut and plunged Lebanon into mourning happened at a moment when the country was already facing one of the darkest moments in its history, worse than the one it...
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WATCH: Phil Augusta Jackson Wants You to Get Out of Your Head
This episode continues our video series at Lit Hub to benefit the wonderful Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that teaches reading and writing to thousands of low-income and marginalized...
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A Conversation About Childcare, Self-Expectations, and the Fragility of...
Sara Schaff’s The Invention of Love (Split/Lip Press, 2020) pulls together crisply-drawn women protagonists across 14 stories that pulse with longing. Her characters are trying to navigate impossible...
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Héctor Tobar on Collaborating With a Dead Man
This week on Well-Versed, Sean McDonald, publisher of MCD, talks with writer Héctor Tobar about his new novel, The Last Great Road Bum, the great road novels in literature, his real-life allegiance to...
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Devon Gilfillian Wants You to Write For You
This episode continues our video series at Lit Hub to benefit the wonderful Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that teaches reading and writing to thousands of low-income and marginalized...
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Hari Kunzru is Never Going to Read To Kill a Mockingbird
Hari Kunzru’s novel, Red Pill, is out now, so we asked him a few questions about writing habits, influences, and the books he wished he had written. * Who do you most wish would read your book? There...
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Defiance in Writing
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books Are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Unraveling,” will take place on September...
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Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul
This episode continues our video series to benefit the wonderful Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that teaches reading and writing to thousands of low-income and marginalized students...
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A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing
As part of the University of Washington Press’s centennial celebrations, press staff looked back at the press’s history to identify ten pivotal titles that define fields and changed conversations....
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What Are We Going to Do About Voter Suppression?
In April of 2019, six historians and commentators on American politics gathered at the historic Library of Company in Philadelphia to discuss voter suppression. In 2013, the Supreme Court eliminated...
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