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How Do You Keep a Novel Alive When It Keeps Trying To Die?

Kate Hope Day on Checking In With Your Work and Persistence

March 5, 2021

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Interview with an Indie Press: Melville House

Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians on Risk, Change, and Making Mistakes

March 5, 2021

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The 15 Best Book Covers
of February

So Many Covers, So Little Time

February 26, 2021

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How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

Winner Gets a Prize*

February 24, 2021

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On the 50-Year Fight to Preserve the Navajo Homeland

David Roberts Outlines the Political Work of Mark Maryboy

February 23, 2021

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How I Ruined Goodnight Moon for Karen on Goodreads

Julia Fine on Margaret Wise Brown

February 23, 2021

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50 Great Classic Novels
Under 200 Pages

Getting You Through February

February 17, 2021

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Moved to Tears at the Magic Mike Live XXX Revue

Tracy Clark-Flory: “I drank it up like a bottle of water discovered in the middle of the desert”

February 16, 2021

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On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

February 16, 2021

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How Should a Person Write
About the Internet?

On Debut Novels by Lauren Oyler and Patricia Lockwood

February 1, 2021

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The 10 Best Book Covers
of January

Are We There Yet?

January 28, 2021

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An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

Avi Loeb Considers the Greatest Scientific Anomaly of Our Age

January 26, 2021

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Joan Didion: Why I Write

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means."

January 26, 2021

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25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

Rethinking Popular Assumptions of Fiction Writing

January 19, 2021

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Living That Van Life, Before It
Was a Hashtag

Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

January 15, 2021

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Here’s Your 2021 Literary Film and TV Preview

Something to Watch While You Wait for the Vaccine?

January 14, 2021

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Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

In Conversation About Byrne's Memoir Walking with Ghosts

January 13, 2021

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Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

January 13, 2021

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American Legacy: When White Supremacist Mobs Threaten Democracy

David Zucchino on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and the Capitol Insurrection of 2021

January 12, 2021

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From Al Qaeda to QAnon: Rebecca Solnit on the Inside Job at the Capitol

Another American Day That Will Live in Infamy

January 9, 2021

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Rebecca Solnit: When the President of Mediocrity Incites an Insurrection

White Identity Politics is Out of Control

January 7, 2021

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

228 Books We're Looking Forward to This Year

January 6, 2021

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On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

Nuala O’Connor Considers the Interior Life of a Literary Icon

January 5, 2021

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What It’s Like to Teach a
Magpie How to Fly

"We are not, I have to admit, necessarily raising this magpie in the most natural way."

January 5, 2021

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Arthur Miller on the Surreal, Ideological Violence Underlying the 1968 Democratic Convention

The Battle of Chicago: From the Delegates’ Side

January 4, 2021

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Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020

When You Need Something Good to Read, Head to Your Indie Bookstore

December 30, 2020

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Barry Lopez: An Era of Emergencies is Upon Us and We Cannot Look Away

“I object to the desecration of what is beautiful. I object to society’s complacency.”

December 24, 2020

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Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2020

The Best Writing at the Site in this Annus Horribilis

December 23, 2020

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The Ten Biggest Literary Stories
of the Year

And Then We Came to the End

December 22, 2020

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On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

Rick Bass Considers the Truth of Things at the Darkest Time of the Year

December 21, 2020

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What Did You Read This Year
That You Loved?

Freeman's Contributors Weigh In on Their Favorite Books of 2020

December 18, 2020

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Notable Literary Deaths in 2020

An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great
Literary Minds We Lost This Year

December 18, 2020

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The Biggest Literary Stories
of the Year: 30 to 11

From Obama's Memoir to Connell's Chain

December 17, 2020

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Unemployed and Underemployed Booksellers Choose Their Favorite Books of the Year

Recommendations from The Bookstore at the End of the World

December 16, 2020

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The Ultimate Best Books
of 2020 List

Reading All the Lists So You Don't Have to Since 2017

December 15, 2020

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The Biggest Literary Stories
of the Year: 50 to 31

Not All of Them Are Bad, Promise

December 14, 2020

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Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
and the Archive

"Black Futures started as all great contemporary love stories do—on an app!"

December 11, 2020

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Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

How Bob Stephenson Incorporated Indigenous Knowledge Systems in His Work

December 11, 2020

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The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of the Year

What Else Do You Have to Do?

December 10, 2020

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Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year

We Lived Through 2020 and All We Got Were These Really Good Books

December 7, 2020

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The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020

As Chosen by Our Favorite Book Cover Designers

December 2, 2020

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The 10 Best Book Covers
of November

The Only Way Out is Through

November 25, 2020

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting
Nazis Halfway

Why Is It So Hard for Democrats to Act Like They Actually Won?

November 19, 2020

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The Fall of Trump: On Presidents, Dictators, and Life After a Regime

Francisco Goldman Considers What Happens Next

November 12, 2020

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Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

That's Right.

November 11, 2020

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Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here

The Ascendancy of Kamala Harris to the White House is More Radical Than We Think

November 6, 2020

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N. Scott Momaday on the Vulnerability of Prairielands

"The earth is not impervious to the presence of man."

November 6, 2020

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Kamala Harris: Berkeley's Black and South Asian Communities Taught Me the Meaning of Family

"I could begin to imagine what my future might hold for me."

November 3, 2020

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The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

Apropos of . . . Nothing

October 27, 2020

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A Book to Conjure Nature, When We
Need It Most

In Conversation with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris About The Lost Spells

October 26, 2020

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The Publisher Who Transformed the Careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

Alan M. Klein on the Mystery of Ronald Lane Latimer

By Alan M. Klein March 5, 2021

New in Nonfiction

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This March

Remaking the World, Remembering Black Excellence, Wandering Mexico City, and More

By Literary Hub March 5, 2021

How the Trillion-Dollar Processed Food Industry Manipulates Our Instinctual Desires

Michael Moss Connects Our Prehistoric Ancestors to Our Love of Aldi

By Michael Moss March 5, 2021

The Quarantine Tapes

Salman Rushdie on the Concentric Circles of Stories We Live Within

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on
The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes March 5, 2021

Women's History

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

Olivia Campbell on the Unremembered and Underappreciated

By Olivia Campbell March 5, 2021

You Need to Read These Writers to Understand Native American Comedy

Kliph Nesteroff Recommends Ben Yagoda, Arthur Manuel, and More

By Kliph Nesteroff March 5, 2021

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

African American History

How Ida B. Wells Brought the Truth About Lynching to National Attention

By Alex Tresniowski March 5, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Homie by Danez Smith

By Diego Báez March 5, 2021

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, Read by Julia Whelan

Powerful Storytelling and a Brilliant Narrator

<em>The Four Winds</em> by Kristin Hannah, Read by Julia Whelan

By Behind the Mic March 5, 2021

New Books Network

Veena Rao on Writing a Story Deeply Rooted in Patriarchal Culture

By New Books Network March 5, 2021

Audiobook Break

David Copperfield: Chapter 15 by Charles Dickens, Read by Nicholas Boulton

By Audiobook Break March 5, 2021

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

March 5, 2021 By Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

March 4, 2021 By Book Marks

A (Big) Dig Into the Roots of Boston Noir

March 5, 2021 By Luke Poling

The Great, Mixed-Up Literary Tradition of Doppelgangers and Imposters

March 5, 2021 By Alexandra Andrews

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