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Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States
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Our Noble Selves
Flynn and Miss Ogilvie had been given no part to play in the blind judging of the Festival Cake. Denholm had requested their presence merely
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Emily St. John Mandel, Leigh Bardugo, Kate Atkinson and more: 20 new books out today!
An onslaught, as ever, in this bountiful month: today we welcome the brand new speculative work by Emily St. John Mandel, the conclusive end
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Are library e-books really hurting book sales?
A study released at the top of this month found that e-lending at public libraries could be having a negative effect on the book market. In
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Could this James Baldwin typewriter be an okay use of AI?
A new interactive exhibition about the writing of James Baldwin features an AI programmed typewriter that directs users to writing drawn fro
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Lit Hub Daily: September 14, 2026
Does your town need a bookstore? Maybe you should start one. | Lit Hub Bookstores John J. Lennon Talks to Harriet Clark, Author of The Hill,
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Children of the Wolf
I am descended from Vikings. My paternal lineage runs all the way back to Erik the Red, the first European to stumble upon the shores of Nor
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Behind One the Greatest Post-Punk Songs Ever Recorded
The Ian Curtis whose torch singing floats above the high bass and glistening synths of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is hardly recognizable as t
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36 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall
Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds w
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This Week in Literary History: John Keats Writes “To Autumn”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On September 19, 1819, after walking along the River Itchen in Ha
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A Question of Innocence: On Writing About Real and Imagined Lives In and Outside of Prison
This spring, I read Harriet Clark’s novel, The Hill, about a girl named Suzanna who grows up visiting her mother in a prison on a hill. I ha
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When Your Town Needs a Bookstore… Why Not Open One Yourself?
The morning my life changed, I was sitting in a cafe talking to a student at a writers conference in Southampton. My phone rang, but I didn’
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Lit Hub Weekly: September 7 – 11, 2026
A new season means new books. Here are 34 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara
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Graywolf Press has a brand new look.
Last night, at their 2026 Literary Salon in Minneapolis, stalwart indie publisher Greywolf Press unveiled a new logo, developed in partnersh
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Lit Hub Daily: September 11, 2026
Where does Harlan Coben get ideas? “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” | Lit Hub Craft Phillip Lopate explores the lore and legacy of “The
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The Legend of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
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The War on Terror Through the Eyes of Queer Afghan Refugees
As I read Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us in the waning days of the summer, I realized their debut novel paired well with Jose Esteban Muñoz’s f
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Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Cultivating a writer’s mind frame means looking at the world a ce
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On the Forgotten Enslavement of Native Americans and Its Central Role in US History
On a sun-drenched day in June 2018, a woman in traditional Native regalia dropped a large wreath of flowers into the Atlantic Ocean. The im
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On the Existential Threat of Palestinian Kites to Colonial Power
There is an old colonizer adage that “the old will die and the young will forget.” In fact, Israel built its future wagering that the Palest
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The Birthing Tree
February 1968 On a bone-chilling day in February, over a table of textbooks and potato chips, Susan and I, despite me being only twelve year
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121 years ago, Russian printers went on strike over commas.
Commas can change meaning (“eats shoots and leaves” versus “eats, shoots and leaves” or “I ate, grandma” versus “I ate grandma”), but over a
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On Ed Park’s Personal Days, one of the best comic novels of all time.
This is the first installment of an ongoing series recommending books from what I’ll call the Funny Novel Canon. Think of it as a working sy
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Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2026
Stef Ferrari recommends incredibly earnest novels by Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists If your pa
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