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Hemingway and the Trendiness of the Badly Behaved Writer

While most know Hemingway to be a favorite of stereotypical “macho” literature buffs, what with the author’s tendencies for vicious criticism and outright brawling, not many know just how vulnerable…

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Signifying Nothing

Shakespeare’s texts are anything but stagnant, often taking on new meanings depending on the context in which they’re experienced. In an excerpt from The Maximum Security Book Club, Mikita Brottman…

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Thanks, Alopecia Universalis

Someday, will it be not myself but my daughter that I hold? At Lit Hub, Helen Phillips, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat and the newly released Some Possible Solutions, writes about…

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When Writers Read in Empty Rooms

I wasn’t an adult. I wasn’t accomplished. I sure as hell wasn’t a novelist. I was 11, skinny and afraid, standing in front of my sixth grade class, asking if…

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A Language Only We Can Hear

Kendrick Lamar’s debut album “Good Kid, M.A.D.D. City” contains the basic, essential elements of a novel: a protagonist faced with an antagonistic outer world, plot and its arc—from opening scene…

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How to Get Your Book Beach-Ready for Summer

Where are the crossroads between literary and commercial, and would you mind giving us directions? At Lit Hub, Brian Gresko spoke to novelist Miranda Beverly-Whittemore about new endings, labeling a book a…

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Waiting for Wallace

Despite its “near-canonical” status in America, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is taking its sweet time in the translation process. So far, it has only been translated into five other…

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What’s Lit Got to Do with It

We remember the 80s as decidedly uncool, art included. But shoulder pads and good writing aren’t mutually exclusive: The labels didn’t matter. What mattered was revealing the world and its…

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Is This Water?

Graduation season is upon us again, and with it comes the vacant, cliché-ridden literary animal that is the graduation speech. Over at Lit Hub, Emily Harnett revisits David Foster Wallace’s…

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Books That Appear When We Need Them Most

There is a particular way we love books that find us at exactly the right time, a love that swells beyond the dexterity of the writing or believability of the…

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A Zone of Psychological Relief

Over at Lit Hub, Michele Filgate reports on the growing influence of Street Lit, which provides writing workshops and books to the homeless community in Austin, Texas. Filgate also talks with Street Lit founder…

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The Long Lost Writing Life

My only real want along the way was to illuminate something about the human condition in a voice and from a point of view that could belong only to me.…

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