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- MacArthur fellows Jericho Brown, Ling Ma, Jason Reynolds, and Juan Felipe Herrera give writing advice, book recommendations, and more. | Lit Hub Craft
- “It’s a novel that promises romance, then denies it thoroughly, repeatedly.” Merve Emre and Adam Dalva discuss George Gissing’s The Odd Women. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Juhea Kim talks to Jane Ciabattari about isolation, ballet, and writing: “At the risk of selling my novel short, I’ll say this: real life is more dramatic than fiction when it comes to ballet.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
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- Juhea Kim, Orhan Pamuk, and more! These 11 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Anxiety was Deborah’s thing. In fact, it was her friend.” Read from Naomi Wood’s new story collection, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Richard Brody asks if novelist, screenwriter, and actress Virginia Tracy was the first great American film critic. | The New Yorker
- On lists, the abyss, and François Rabelais’s 16th century novel, Pantagruel. | The Paris Review
- “The poetry written in dark times is proof of something stronger than hope — a faith in the possibility of a world where things could be otherwise.” Orlando Reade meditates on defeat, hope, and Paradise Lost. | Jacobin
- The hottest new literary scam is… republishing classic public domain literature for profit? | Slate
- Julia Webster Ayulo explores the work of the forensic linguists using grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases. | The Dial
- “There’s plenty of plot in the book — and it’s one of those books most people will have trouble putting down — but the action is not, in a sense, where the action is.” Jonathan Franzen talks to Adam Moss about writing The Corrections. | Vulture
