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Rejected pitches for Practical Magic 2.
This week, whimsigoths from New England to the PNW will be celebrating a long-awaited sequel. Practical Magic 2 revisits characters first co
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34 Books You Need to Read This Fall
The weather has become untrustworthy, for determining the seasons and otherwise. As I write this introduction, the leaves remain stubbornly
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Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2026
A new season means new books. Here are 35 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara
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Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!
There’s a rule in September that every week must include one epically splashy book: this week, Emma Cline’s Switzy is here to fulfill that q
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Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It
One of the most celebrated classicists writing today, Emily Wilson achieved a rare kind of literary stardom in 2017, when her translation of
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Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word o
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How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs
Leo Tolstoy should have been triumphant. By the 1880s, the Russian novelist had written the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, ac
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What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe
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This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City
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“How to be a Black Author”
After Lorrie Moore and Kiese Laymon. You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you
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Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview
Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional intervi
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 31 – September 4, 2026
Marlon James tells Eric Olson about (finally!) writing a novel that draws from his life. | Lit Hub In Conversation “Terror wasn’t the only w
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This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
The imminent arrival of fall means I’ve been pulling out all my jackets in eager anticipation—I’m not a fan of summer, especially when it’s
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Here’s what’s making us happy this week.
As summer comes to a close, we at Lit Hub are celebrating milestones and jumping into the deep end. What’s making us happy? Climbing mountai
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Lit Hub Daily: September 4, 2026
Suzanne Roberts offers advice (and prompts!) for writing about sex. | Lit Hub Craft How does time actually work? Jim Al-Khalili explores the
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Is Time Even Real? Does It Even Flow?
You might consider time to be such a fundamental feature of our existence that there really is nothing profound or meaningful that we can sa
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