TODAY: In 1899, Chinese novelist and dramatist Lao She is born.
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From Dear Edward to Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, here’s the Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in February. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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How Jane Fonda somehow combined dance aerobics and progressive politics. | Lit Hub Sports and… Politics?
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“The book can strip us of our assumptions of what a woman, and an artist, can and cannot write.” Ayşegül Savaş considers the work and career of Turkish writer Tezer Özlü. | Lit Hub Criticism
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In praise of the literary journal longform interview: Nick Ripatrazone goes deep into the archives to uncover gems from Gass, Murdoch, Elkin, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Pamela Anderson’s Love, Pamela, Kevin Cook’s Waco Rising, and Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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A guide to the life and work of Marcia Muller, “the founding mother” of the hardboiled woman as private eye. | CrimeReads
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“There is enough love in his work to redeem half the hate I see floating on my screen or pumped into my earbuds.” Gary Shteyngart remembers writer and friend Paul La Farge. | The New Yorker
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Recommendations for our rogue year: a goblin mode reading list. | Electric Lit
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“What is the purpose of an outlet that’s dedicated feminist? I think that one of the answers to that is that it allows us to dig into intra-feminist conflict in a way that might be too risky or too scary to do out in front of the world.” From the last Red Ink Panel on feminist publishing. | LIBER: A Feminist Review
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Lincoln Michel considers “fairy tales as an MFA antidote,” and the myriad ways to tell a story. | Counter Craft
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“As The I Hate to Cook Book proved after it was published in 1960, a lot of women hated to cook.” Aimee Levitt on the charms of a 60-year-old cookbook that embraced convenience and mediocrity. | Eater
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Two-time finalist for the National Book Award and celebrated poet Linda Pastan died on Monday. | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Quan Barry in praise of writing across genre • In this week’s Life Advice for Book Lovers, Dorothea recommends books for all the single ladies • New poetry from Deborah Levy