THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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- How much money would Mr. Darcy be worth today? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey investigates. | Lit Hub History
- Barbara Kingsolver explains why she writes standing up and answers more of our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Lydia Millet talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing her double novel, Fair Ones. | Lit Hub Craft
- “To mother in modern culture is to become a temple subjected to public scrutiny.” Kristen Millares Young on motherhood and marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What being electrocuted meant for Nafissa Thompson-Spires as both a person and a writer. | Lit Hub Craft
- Adam Wilson will never write a Yankees fan (and other notes on craft). | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Paul Theroux makes a surprisingly intimate visit to Toronto: “He was a candid Canadian, saying out loud what many Canadians thought but were too polite to confide to me, or who might respond to my asking their opinion about our president, Don’t git me sterted.” | Lit Hub Travel
- “Everyone was in town for the wheat / Convention. Kansas City, Power / And Light.” Read “Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a poem by Patricia Lockwood from the collection Agate Head / Stone Soup. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “They’d ‘met’, then, in Switzerland: in the Italian part, Ticino, beside Lake Maggiore.” Read from Tom McCarthy’s new novel, The Rhyl Poster. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “There is something uncanny about Scott’s swerve from literary fiction, which she had been writing, into serialized genre fiction, given the history of the ‘everything store’ with which her life and her immense fortune are so intimately bound.” Ronda Feng considers MacKenzie Scott’s serialized novel and the shadow of Amazon. | The New Yorker
- Ken Chen on Dictee at 40: “Rather than reading Dictee as a riddle to be solved, we must look for its pleasures, the foremost of which is love.” | The Yale Review
- Viviana Freyer explores why, in François Ozon’s adaptation of The Stranger, “Algiers defines—and singles out—Meursault.” | Public Books
- You probably didn’t realize how terrifyingly easy it is to become the owner of a private school.| ProPublica
- The case for posting parts of your memoir online: “What happens to self-image when it is formed in public?” | Aeon
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