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Authors are boycotting Canada’s largest bookstore chain.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Jenan Matari, and Daniel José Older are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open letter vo
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Harry Houdini was a serious book collector. Here are some of his weirdest finds.
Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, newspaper clip
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture is launching a fund to save small presses affected by the war.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book Arsenal Festival—is
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Lit Hub Daily: October 29, 2026
What happened to the “make book?” Maris Kreizman considers the conundrum with debut novels. | Lit Hub Traci Brimhall explores odes, elegies,
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How Austerity is Killing Higher Ed (and What We Can Do About It)
Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in our bright and p
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On the Rise and Fall of Publishing’s “Make Book”
In this optimization-obsessed age, it can feel downright subversive to say that gut feelings are more valuable than statistics. But the proc
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How Do You Write Through Grief?
The ode and the elegy are often thought—at first glance—to be separate modes of poetry that belong to different emotional experiences. Histo
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Why Are Women’s Biographies Often Told From a Man’s Point of View?
Women’s historical fiction and historical romance are currently more popular than ever, but women’s historical nonfiction? Not so much. Desp
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Rebecca Perry is Reading Now, and Next
In Rebecca Perry’s Booker shortlisted May We Feed the King, a woman who suffers from a loneliness, its source purposefully kept fuzzy, is de
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An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies
Sometimes in the morning I remember thinking: it is the sorrow of leaving a place you’re not done loving yet. In the afternoon the satisfact
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our mishmash of magnificent reviews this week includes Junot Díaz on Jane Schoenbrun’s Public Access Afterworld, Kevin Power on Yiyun Li’s M
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, gene
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, gene
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Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2026
Emma Cole dissects the romance and horror in some of Hitchcock’s most iconic films: “Hitchcock knows there must be some emotional investment
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Pretending to Be Tony Shalhoub: On Co-Writing a Book in My Father’s Voice
For the past few years, my father and I have been writing a book together, a memoir told in his first-person voice. This has required me to
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Is Hitchcock Horror, Romance, or Both?
Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, and he’s one of my favorite classic film directors, creating some fantastically memorab
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Tiny, Furry Friends: A Short History of Small Dogs in European Art
On August 29, 1511, Isabella d’Este, the Marchioness of Mantua, patron of the arts, fashion icon, and one of the most famous women in Renais
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What Working in the Emergency Department Taught Me About Death
In the five years I spent at medical school, I learned a lot about death. My classmates and I spent endless hours in a darkened lecture thea
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Embracing the Darkness: In Praise of Writing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
As we increasingly feel the world around us crumbling under the weight of division and human suffering, there’s an odd kind of freedom in co
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How Becoming a Preacher Made Me a Better Writer
In my mid-thirties, I became a preacher. Might as well come right out with it, admit I’m a preacher the way a neighbor at the block party mi
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Bajirao knew Gayatri was giving him her wordless approval. All she had to do was brush her fingers over her nose ring and clear her throat.
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Worth the Risk: On Daring to Choose the Writing Life
When I was child, my parents told me to “be smart” at least once a day. Depending on the context, these words stood in for a range of differ
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Lit Hub Daily: October 27, 2026
Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur women artists in fiction. | Lit Hub Art Fake news, far-right pr
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Jane Eyre’s Watercolors, Lily Briscoe’s Paintings, and The Problem With Writing About Art
Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I liked best, they te
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