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How Books Can Make an Awkward Encounter Slightly Less Awkward
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Nine Books of Poetry About Breakups (and Awakenings)
We often experience breakups as private deaths. The severing of an intimate relationship means giving up a vision of life together. One mour
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“Simple Recipes”
There is a simple recipe for making rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child. Back then, I used to sit up on the kitchen counter w
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Emily McBride on Maternal Mental Health and the Lindsay Clancy Trial
Fiction writer Emily McBride joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her debut novel, Queen Mab, and maternal ment
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. These ten titles were selected f
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Remembering the great Annie Dillard.
Annie Dillard, the masterful stylist and brilliant thinker, has died at 81. Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson.
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Librarians won big at the 2026 Emmys.
Though we do well to celebrate the rise of Widow’s Bay and Jean Smart’s 193rd public recognition, another excellent thing happened at the Em
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A sneak preview of the literary films currently dominating the festival circuit.
It’s looking like a great year for indie cinema. Which is swell news for nerds. For those of us particularly loyal to print and celluloid, t
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry. These ten titles were selected from
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Attention LBJ nerds: Robert Caro is posting book updates on Instagram.
As Lit Hub’s resident Caro-head, I’m committed to bringing you regular updates on the historian’s progress on his Years of Lyndon Johnson se
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Lit Hub Daily: September 16, 2026
Who actually benefits in an MFA workshop? Devon Halliday explores why these spaces might need “a greater clarity of purpose.” | Lit Hub Craf
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Fallow
The dentist’s quote for the surgery was between two and four thousand dollars. “I’m sorry I can’t be more precise,” he said, “but I can’t re
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The Movie Star and the Mountain: On Robert Redford’s Sundance Origin Story
I. The first time he sees it, a chord is struck inside him. He is overcome by a kind of excitement he has no words for. The mountain looms a
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Revisiting Vikram Chandra’s Ode to the Art of Human Coding in the Age of AI
Twelve years ago, Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’
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How an Egyptian Prison Poem Came to Structure My Memoir
I wrote my memoir, Huna, in English, which is to say I wrote it inside a contradiction. Huna is a memoir of the Egyptian revolution, six yea
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Who Are MFA Workshops *Really* For?
How many writers does it take to fix a short story? The premise of the creative writing workshop is that it takes a room full of writers, re
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. These ten titles were
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. These ten titles
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Lit Hub Daily: September 15, 2026
Don’t have time to read all those fall reading lists? That’s okay. We read them for you. Here’s the Ultimate Fall Reading List. | Lit Hub Re
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The Ultimate Fall 2026 Reading List
The leaves are changing, and so is the footwear. The names on the books are getting bigger. There is, some might say, a crispness. Yes, it’s
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Emily St. John Mandel on Writing a Novel of Dystopian Counterlives
Post-pandemic dystopias are at the center of Emily St. John Mandel’s most celebrated novels. Station Eleven (2014), which won the Prix des L
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How Madeleine Thien Organizes Her Bookshelves, Among Other Things
Madeleine Thien’s new story collection, Simple Recipes is available now from W.W. Norton. * What part of your writing routine do you think w
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On Falling Out of Love With Moscow
I grew up in Moscow at the tail end of the Soviet era. Despite its grand title—the capital of the USSR—the city of my youth held little char
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On the Orientalism and Imperial Gaze of Western Horror Films
Let me just say I don’t like Lee Cronin. Not that I know the Irishman, best known for regurgitating horror’s tired tropes with a view to win
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