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- How do you write a story that’s for you? Anna Noyes on writing “the kind of book that keeps me awake.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Jessie Rosen recommends a reading list of superstitions, featuring Jennifer Weiner, Yangsze Choo, Morgan Jerkins, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Miranda July’s All Fours, and Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Anna Dorn shares some writing tips that prove how good it is to be in the middle. | Lit Hub Craft
- “We are divergent and we are confluent. Most of us arrive here on our own, singly, singularly.” Dao Strom on the magic of hybrid writing. | Lit Hub Art
- Can I have this dance? Thomas D. Seeley demystifies one of the greatest mysteries of honeybee behavior. | Lit Hub Science
- “I’ve hated every job I ever had. I just don’t ‘get it’ when a woman feels she has to leave the home to find fulfillment.” Read from Robert Plunket’s novel, Love Junkie. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “What would it mean to interrogate labor as the engine behind conglomerate publishing and the core of its systemic failure?” Miriam Gordis on publishing’s labor crisis. | Verso
- Violence, totalitarianism, and the wrong side of utopia. Read from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s new translation of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Foolsburg: The History of a Town. | The Hudson Review
- Read an open letter by a group of students who faced administrative discipline for participating in Harvard’s Gaza solidarity encampment. | Public Books
- There are a lot of awards for science fiction literature. But which one has the most dangerous trophy? | Reactor
- The Ethicist tackles the question of García Márquez’s final manuscript. | The New York Times Magazine
- “Because the digital so effortlessly mediates our words and deeds, we collaborate in its ascendancy. We have our phones. Our phones have us.” Daniel Schillinger on digital tech and Antón Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making. | The Point
