“These girls thought themselves saints of something, and I nodded and kneeled.” Emmeline Cline on eating disorder memoirs and the contagion of identification. | Lit Hub Memoir Steven W. Thrasher on the murder of journalists in Gaza and the loss of critical American voices in journalism: “What will we do when the Times is the only […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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“These girls thought themselves saints of something, and I nodded and kneeled.” Emmeline Cline on eating disorder memoirs and the contagion of identification. | Lit Hub Memoir Steven W. Thrasher on the murder of journalists in Gaza and the loss of critical American voices in journalism: “What... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Hannah Silva examines the (not so) shocking similarities between quantum physics and queer dating. | Lit Hub Memoir August brought some great book covers, and a lot of them were slippery. | Lit Hub Design “I had been writing my diaries on the notepad app of my phone, when it went the way of so […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-28 10:30:20 UTC ]
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A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir James Shapiro on Willa Cather and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-28 10:30:47 UTC ]
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It turns out that sitting down to write and stepping up to the starting block aren’t so different. Jade Song on what swimming has taught her about craft. | Lit Hub Memoir The Great Bambino wasn’t the only slugger with an unforgettable nickname. Kevin Baker introduces us to Boom-Boom,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-03-28 10:30:28 UTC ]
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“At a time when books are being banned in schools and public libraries in unprecedented numbers, it’s alarming how writers have been reproached simply for signing letters that call for peace.” Maris Kreizman on the Jewish Book Council’s new initiative. | Lit Hub Politics The best book covers in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-29 11:30:17 UTC ]
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“I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.” Amitava Kumar on family, loss, and resonating with the words of other writers. | Lit Hub Memoir “Even in the worst of times, humans have a way of coming together to lighten the load and provide hope […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-27 11:30:51 UTC ]
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What’s Aisha Sabatini Sloan reading? Diana Arterian on the author’s nightstand. | Lit Hub Criticism “The intimacy I feel with what my home once was cannot be reconciled with what downtown has become.” Emma Dries reflects on her childhood home and how 9/11 changed downtown Manhattan forever. |... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-22 11:30:18 UTC ]
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Kate Sidley on writing in the aftermath of a home robbery: “When bad things happen, they happen off-page, out of sight, and with a certain delicacy.” | Lit Hub Memoir Lockdown may be over, but what did it to to our collective sense of balance? How the pandemic ruined our understanding of “free”... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-02-19 11:30:44 UTC ]
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Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America. | Lit Hub Memoir “Goodness is neither wisdom nor wealth; ironically, like evil, in its purest form good is not instrumental, utilitarian, or even pragmatic.” Ed Simon on the Seven Deadly Sins and how good... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-15 11:30:28 UTC ]
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“My personality is more indebted to The Simpsons than any other book or movie or album or show or art thing.” Meet the 2024 National Book Award finalists while they answer some of our quick questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation Mirza Waheed explains why he’s boycotting a screening of a film... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 11:30:55 UTC ]
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Jaydra Johnson on the intersections of literature, classism, and what it means to be called white trash. | Lit Hub Memoir “It’s hard to know how a film as perverse as this could have ended satisfyingly in a way that keeps faith with its themes.” Tim Robey remembers Babe: Pig In the City, the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-08 11:30:51 UTC ]
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“To be a mother was what a girl wanted then, and I did not.” Honor Moore on motherhood as a choice, not a destiny. | Lit Hub Memoir Dai George explains how Dylan Thomas made “the avant-garde sexy and immersive like no one else.” | Lit Hub Criticism Is protest a form of creative expression? […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-07 11:30:55 UTC ]
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“What I felt was the persistent, undefinable numbness that eventually overtakes you and won’t let go.” André Aciman on struggling to find his place in Rome. | Lit Hub Memoir “The literary mind cannot be isolationist.” Read Elif Shafak’s speech from the Opening Ceremony of the Frankfurt Book... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-22 10:30:20 UTC ]
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“I aligned with stories that were messy and vulnerable. Writers who were messy and vulnerable.” Betsy Lerner remembers working with writers who had demons to wrestle with. | Lit Hub Memoir Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books that span the globe. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Cornelia... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-02 10:30:16 UTC ]
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers on consent, power, and age gaps in queer relationships. | Lit Hub Memoir Tracking the ongoing fight against creeping fascism in American schools: “The ultimate goal is to justify a takeover of the institutions, transforming them into weapons in the war against the very... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-16 10:30:01 UTC ]
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“I’ve never felt the presence of my own death so close to me,” writes Nahil Mohana while chronicling the toll of living with endless displacement and fear in Gaza. | Lit Hub Memoir Shannon Bowring asks, “How do you create a written world that honors the spirit of the place that inspired it while... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-05 10:30:24 UTC ]
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“Although Nazis were more famous for burning books, they also sold them.” Evan Friss on when the Nazis opened a propaganda bookstore in Los Angeles. | Lit Hub Bookstores Get ready for the literary film and TV you need to watch this fall. | Lit Hub Film “He was not one of those people who […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-21 10:30:24 UTC ]
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Why libraries are often deliberate targets during war: “For book lovers, there is something profoundly, almost viscerally disturbing about a library on fire.” | Lit Hub Libraries “On paper, Enoch’s travels don’t sound that dissimilar to reported nonhuman encounters.” Luis Elizondo on beings from... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-20 10:30:55 UTC ]
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Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “Although I have not inherited a physical plot, I’ve inherited dual impulses related to how I define home.” Sadiya Ansari on family, place and inheritance in South Asia and North America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-14 10:30:11 UTC ]
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Navid Sinaki on Scheherazade, secrets, and finding his voice as a young, queer Iranian immigrant. | Lit Hub Memoir “What do we inherit from trauma? Complicated stories, frayed genetics, and many, many hidden secrets.” Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and more take the Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-13 10:30:55 UTC ]
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