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A daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.
lithub.comJoined December 2014
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"The pandemic forced a lot of unasked and possibly better avoided questions on many of us about love (and certainly on me): Can you imagine an unimaginable world with this person?"
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"Forget the reader. Forget turning them on or off, forget that Goodreads exists, forget it all."
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Imogen Crimp considers the intersection of ambition, power, gender and money in Jean Rhys' "Voyage in the Dark."
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"If future Sundances are filled with as many sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies as 2022, the typical 'Sundance film' might look a lot less like Garden State and a lot more like Get Out."
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"'Woman Running in the Mountains' tracks one insignificant person’s defiance in the face of the overwhelming darkness of the world."
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"We must loudly say that racism isn’t just an ugly belief but a system to be addressed with direct action and public policies."
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"If a person we love is missing, then our brain assumes they are far away and will be found later." Mary-Frances O'Connor considers the mutually exclusive truths our grieving minds can hold.
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"Weird short stories are gifts from strangers." Jason Ockert recommends four writers who engage with the strange.
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"Objectively watching 'Death on the Nile' is incredibly difficult, if not impossible."
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Weekend reading recommendations from the critics.
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"The larger a single person’s friendship network, the less likely they were to exhibit an avoidant attachment style. And it would appear that our friends may know us at least as well as we know ourselves."
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Under-the-radar books to take you from contemporary Japan, to wartime Iran, to an English boarding school, and to a trailer on top of a New Mexico mesa.
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"Narrative Therapy insisted that clients were the best experts on themselves, and it saw the job of the therapist as supporting clients as they authored their stories."
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"When you go back and you look at a time period, all the major things seem like not that big of a deal now, and all the insignificant things seem like we underrated them."
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Check out our back ep. on to hear and Peter Ho Davies discuss recent and historic racism against Asian Americans. W/ #olympics
http://lithub.com/this-is-who-we-are-gish-jen-and-peter-ho-davies-on-the-long-history-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-us/…
http://lithub.com/this-is-who-we-are-gish-jen-and-peter-ho-davies-on-the-long-history-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-us/…
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"The mark of a good story is in the telling, but it is also in the talking; we come to a greater understanding of ourselves through collective and shared memory."
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"It is more than words we need to change; it’s actually our relationship with the planet and all the creatures and even 'things' around us. Words are a good start, though, because language shapes thinking."
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"As I was buying tomatoes in a Frankfurt market, / A string bean with wild hair on television yelled, 'Poetry is dead!'’’
Three poems by Rebin Kheder, translated from the Kurdish by and Isabel López.
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Today's giveaway: Enter to win a copy of Maeve Higgins’ "Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them," c/o https://bit.ly/2uOtK8i
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"It was always with me." on Finding a Piece of His New Novel Mouth to Mouth in a 20-Year-Old File https://lithub.com/antoine-wilson-on-finding-a-piece-of-his-new-novel-in-a-20-year-old-file/… via
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"If Branagh could somehow manage to land a cast that can stay away from scandal for a second—or a lifetime, really—his Christie adaptations could really be something to see." Marah Eakin () on "Death on the Nile."
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“They’re done in a sort of heavily metaphorical way—and, to my mind, an incredibly innovative and beautiful way of experiencing what it’s like to live in essentially a non-reality.”
At , Megan Walsh discusses the books of the great Yan Lianke.
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Bethanne Patrick () recommends great under-the-radar January books for February (and beyond).
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ICYMI: Even if you've read it, it's definitely worth reading again. Ursula K. Le Guin, Editing to the End https://lithub.com/ursula-k-le-guin-editing-to-the-end/… via
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From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the mysteries of our universe.
We're giving away 15 copies of 's new book, c/o . https://bit.ly/335bBs9
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Someone cleared out Waltham's Little Queer Library.
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Veronica Esposito () on Narrative Therapy and the power of seeing ourselves as storytellers.
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My latest: 5 Books You May Have Missed in January https://lithub.com/5-books-you-may-have-missed-in-january-3/… via
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"My style is no style, which I think is the best style." How gets from point A to point B.
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"While 'interiority' has long been the proclaimed the mark of “literary” fiction, it is not always a useful approach to Afro-Diasporic literary craft." Destiny O. Birdsong () on the power of shared language.
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"You must earn the right to be hopeless. Unless you have truly exhausted all of your options you can’t truthfully claim hopelessness." considers language and action in our age of extinction.
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"Not so long ago, on a winter’s afternoon in a small town in Mexico, a volcano was born."
Read a story by Brenda Lozano () from "McSweeney's 65: Plundered," translated by .
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Love 2 have a corporeal form.
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I’m quoted in the CNN report on literary magazines with a cheery line (“Literary magazines are born to die.”) + apparently my transformation into @lithub incarnate is complete.
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Just a bunch of beautiful libraries.
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"That is how she wrote about the sea in all her books until her last: as the firstborn world, the family home of every form of life."
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"Strength alone is not enough. It may get me to the summit, but back at sea level, I’ll still be adrift."
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"Just as the genre has gotten zanier and zanier, in some ways we’ve also come full circle, back to the era of boring reality TV."
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Do you like long books? Do you like short books? Do you like good books regardless of their word count?
Check out this great list of novels under 200 pages, which includes The Orange Eats Creeps - thank you Emily Temple 
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"Intellectuals may never have mattered less in American life but American politics has never been more in need of robust ideas."
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So enjoyed writing my homage to #ToniMorrison for the new international edition of BELOVED, out this week with who have reissued several of her novels with new introductions by writers inc & . My intro here
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"With all the grief going around these days—whether from foiled love or global contagion or social injustice or the climate or a host of other things—it’s a wonder more of us don’t collapse from the emotional toll."
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Thanks for spreading the word. We have put together an action kit to help people speak up and fight book bans.
Book banning suppresses free speech and the freedom of expression by making it harder for authors to sell copies of their work.
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"But it’s an earlier scene I want to describe for you all, as writers and friends and fathers… up at the hospital, in cold awful Spokane."
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"Alabama has so often been on the wrong side when it comes to matters of race and history—here is a chance to rewrite that narrative on an international stage." on the survivors of the Clotilda.
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Michael Dine () on the combination of extraordinary scientific insight and sheer hard work.
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"Revisitation is part of love. To revise in love, you have to listen to people outside of yourself. You have to listen to other visions of yourself. You have to mind other people’s visions of who you are to them." for Thresholds via :
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Today's giveaway: Enter to win a copy of Florence Williams’ "Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey," c/o https://bit.ly/2uOtK8i
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"Again and again, mountains have shown me that strong is not the opposite of soft. That they are symbiotic. Strength alone is not enough." Silvia Vasquez-Lavado () considers the strength of surrender at Everest Base Camp.
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"Maybe it’s nice to be transported back to the era of sweetly uncomplicated programming that existed decades before we’d ever heard of PCR tests." Danielle Lindemann () makes the case against bells and whistles.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the garden: recommends stories of dangerous plants.
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New ep. out now! We talk to award-winning novelist Susan Choi & editor/critic about the business & prestige of literary awards, from the POV of both a nominee & a judge. With & !
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"The basic fact on the ground is that America has entered a post-policy phase; the government can no longer enact political ideas so why bother even having them?" on the decline of American political life.
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"The wrath of nature was causing literal heartbreak, which was in turn salved by nature." Florence Williams () explores the brain-body connection.
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What a joy it was to talk to Tessa Hadley about her excellent new novel and why her heroine laughs instead of crying after making a monumental decision.
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Read an excerpt from Lynda Barry’s classic graphic novel, "Come Over, Come Over."
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"Forget the reader. Forget turning them on or off, forget that Goodreads exists, forget it all."
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Imogen Crimp considers the intersection of ambition, power, gender and money in Jean Rhys' "Voyage in the Dark."
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"Trying to stop a thought is not some fancy experimental task reserved for a lab setting but rather an everyday necessity for all of us."
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"It is becoming clear that the religious fable of righteousness and sin is not effective in pinpointing cause and effect for human-induced climate change, nor in mitigating it."
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"The film is saturated with double-crosses; betrayals as responses to being betrayed. Everyone makes the same mistakes again and again, curing their hangovers by tossing back more booze."
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'For Rhys' women on the margins, the acquisition of money is random and unpredictable, not based on talent or moral worth.' Imogen Crimp reads Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark, in the light of #MeToo
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"McPhee employs an unhurried, detailed, and decidedly unflashy style. He takes his time getting descriptions right. He cares deeply about accuracy."
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"Not for the last time, she was also dismissed as a woman invading a male domain. More than one man who read the book confessed to being surprised when they met her."
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"Major astutely experiments with his verbal arsenal in this one-of-a-kind novel. This man knows how to make the sounds and cadences in language actually swing."
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In honor of its joining , for , I wrote about“Miller’s Crossing” and its motif of “destroying the human body.”
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"It was almost funny, except it wasn’t." Georgia Pritchett () on a #MeToo experience with her onetime comedy hero.
experience with her onetime comedy hero.
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“How should we humans narrate our self-made climate disaster?”
on the climate lessons of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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If it weren't for small presses, these writers might've never been discovered...
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Here are the first selected titles for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program.
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Today's giveaway: Enter to win a copy of Sarah Manguso’s "Very Cold People," c/o https://bit.ly/2uOtK8i
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I got to talk to the great about revision, enemies, and love. An honor and so, so fun. Up now wherever you get your podcasts, and at
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The author of "The Violin Conspiracy," , talks to about art theft, being a Black man in classical music, and the life-saving power of music.
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"But love necessitates revisitation. How do you love some shit that you don’t go back to?"
Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision https://lithub.com/kiese-laymon-on-revision-as-love-and-love-as-revision/… via
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"The film, with its rain-slicked suburban streets and foggy forests, is a swamp, and its characters are mired deep." reflects on "Miller's Crossing" as it heads to .
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"Simply give in and let whatever it is be—a thought or an itch; look at them and acknowledge rather than try to push them away, and they seem to find their place. Don’t will it; allow it."
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