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The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One day, in the midst of working on my first novel in English, I was overwhelmed by a wave of frustration with my adopted language. With some fury, I knocked this out on the page and decided not to translate... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-10 12:51:04 UTC ]
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Beyond traditional workshop: Rachel May and Krys Malcolm Belc offer a chapbook-oriented reading list for literary innovation. | Lit Hub Reading Lists A century of Weird Tales: Some of the best fantasy and horror stories you can read online from “the magazine that never dies.” | Lit Hub What... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-17 11:30:49 UTC ]
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The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. William Trevor famously described the short story as “the art of the glimpse,” and compression is generally a virtue. But the most engaging and compelling short stories and novels are not necessarily the... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 09:52:28 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover for Safiya Sinclair’s forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, which Simon and Schuster will publish this summer. Sinclair is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-03 15:30:30 UTC ]
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Author and Literary Hub Managing Editor Emily Temple and Lit Hub Associate Editor Katie Yee join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about Lit Hub’s 38 favorite books of the year as chosen by the staff. The list spans genres from historical to memoir to post-digital... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-29 13:27:43 UTC ]
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Behold the 103 best book covers of the year, as picked by the experts. | Lit Hub How much pain should we tolerate for publicity? Or, when your book tour is interrupted by a near-death experience. | Lit Hub Memoir How Paul McCartney responded to the Beatles’ slow but inevitable disintegration.... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-17 11:30:31 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is excited to feature a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Robin Coste Lewis, the author of To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-12 09:56:26 UTC ]
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Nick Fuller Googins makes the case for selling Simon & Schuster to… the employees of Simon & Schuster. | Lit Hub The 23 best old books we read (or reread) in 2022. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Read a new translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian poet-hero Taras Shevchenko: “The bones / Of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-29 11:30:48 UTC ]
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Kris Jansma on working the polls and having long (bipartisan) conversations about literature with his fellow Election Inspectors. | Lit Hub Politics Read rapid-fire interviews with the National Book Award finalists. | Lit Hub “Now we have conversations where we can’t remember what’s in the book... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-09 11:30:59 UTC ]
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Lobotomies, dolls, and cannibals, oh my! Scary book recommendations from your wimpy friends at Lit Hub. | Lit Hub Halloween Darryl Pinckney on working for the New York Review of Books as a young black writer: “Bob and Barbara are dinosaurs and we’re these mammals running around afraid of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-26 10:30:04 UTC ]
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“Love and writing are the only two things in the world that I can bear, the rest is darkness.” Read from Annie Ernaux’s lovelorn 1988 diary. | Lit Hub Memoir Why do we overuse (ecstatic!! hyperbolic!!!) language? Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza investigates. | Lit Hub The slow decline of glory:... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-27 10:30:29 UTC ]
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Strand Bookstore is taking the idea of the “status tote” to a whole new level and is now selling a special Bottega Veneta limited edition black tote back for $1,500. I hate it. Yes, we here at Lit Hub are definitely part of the Literary Tote Industrial Complex, which traffics in superficial... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-13 13:56:21 UTC ]
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Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by A.M. Homes, author of The Unfolding. Find more Keen On... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-06 08:56:16 UTC ]
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The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. At a literary festival a few years ago, during question time after a panel discussion, an audience member told me, “You’re one of those intuitive writers,” stepping hard on the adjective. Aren’t we all... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-08-12 08:52:32 UTC ]
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Lost in the subject matter: Gerald Murnane rereads his first novel, Tamarisk Road, nearly 50 years later. | Lit Hub Why Twitter loves James Baldwin (and whether that’s a good thing). | Lit Hub A quiet reply to a life cut short: Elisha Cooper on coming to terms with what killed his brother. | Lit... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-05-07 10:30:22 UTC ]
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Shelf Talkers is a new series at Lit Hub where booksellers from independent bookstores around the country share their favorite reads of the moment. Here are recommendations from the staff at The Bookshop, a store in East Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2016. * Kyle Lucia Wu, Win Me Something... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-04-11 08:51:17 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer-winning author Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy by the Sea, which will be published by Random House this September. In Lucy by the Sea, Strout follows Lucy—the protagonist of My Name is Lucy Barton and Oh William!—through the early days of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-03-22 18:56:21 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Suad Amiry’s new novel, Mother of Strangers, which will be published by Penguin Random House this August. Mother of Strangers, based on a true story, follows the lives of 15-year-old mechanic Subhi and 13-year-old Shams, the girl he hopes to marry one... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-03-07 15:36:20 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Laura Warrell’s debut novel Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, which will be published by Pantheon in fall 2022. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm follows Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man, who lives for his music... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-03-03 15:00:48 UTC ]
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The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. It is from Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication and literary community where Saunders offers weekly discussions of the craft of the short story. Both free and paid subscriptions are... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-02-25 09:51:07 UTC ]
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