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- Kate Preziosi recommends books on the literary relationship between travel and madness, featuring Rachel Lyon, Scarlett Thomas, and Kimberly King Parsons. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “In the beginning I was only myself. Everything that happened to me, I thought, was mine alone.” Read from Sarah Manguso’s new novel, Liars. | Lit Hub Fiction
- There’s (unsurprisingly?) another Hugo awards controversy. | The Guardian
- Murat Özyaşar on why he doesn’t write in his native language and speaking in a “split tongue.” | Words Without Borders
- Kate Wolf revisits Robert Plunket’s Love Junkie: “Indeed, one point of a character like Mimi is to give voice to the implicit biases underlying societal divisions of sexual orientation, class, and race.” | The Nation
- Sandra Beasley writes about considering family, anxiety, and food allergies while at a writing retreat. | The American Scholar
- “Speculative fiction has historically framed colonization as a contest with winners and losers, but it’s never been that simple.” NK Jemisin on the power of stories to deconstruct colonial power. | Esquire
- A report from the scene of Robert Gottlieb’s book sale. | The New York Times
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