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For your holiday shopping pleasure, we’ve rounded up 50 gift books for everyone on your list, the 10 best cookbooks of the year, and 10 literary games that make great gifts. (No judgment for treating yourself.) | Lit Hub
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ICYMI: Here are the 10 most popular Lit Hub stories of 2022. | Lit Hub
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Nino Strachey considers the revolutionary found family of the Bloomsbury Group, “a group of queer friends and allies, drawn together by affection, bound for life.” | Lit Hub History
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Here are the best reviewed mystery and crime books of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub
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How do you know if your short story should be a novel? Bill Cotter has some thoughts. | Lit Hub Craft
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Franklin A. Thomas breaks down how activists and business leaders collaborated to improve Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1960s. | Lit Hub Politics
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What Simon Jacobs is reading now and next, from Tove Jansson to Paul Robeson. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand
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Winnie M. Li on choosing our #MeToo heroes: journalists or survivors? | CrimeReads
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Can AI solve the famous Cain’s Jawbone literary puzzle? | The Guardian
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“Ernaux’s focus, like Duras’, is the lives of women.” Jessica Ferri on the Nobel laureate and the enduring influence of Marguerite Duras. | Los Angeles Times
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“Where publishers really fail is going to the exact same customer over and over and over again.” Dispatches from a panel addressing diversity in publishing, featuring Min Jin Lee and Roxane Gay. | PEN America
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Read (and sign) the HarperCollins Union’s open letter. | HarperCollins Union
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Why is the US so ill-equipped to help adults who struggle with reading? | ProPublica
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George Saunders, Marlon James, and more authors recommend some books to give as gifts this season. | Esquire
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Did John Donne anticipate McSweeney’s? | JSTOR Daily
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