TODAY: In 1814, Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and amateur poet, pens “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Olivia Rutigliano on the legacy of legendary filmmaker Jean Luc Godard (who disliked e-books before they were invented). | Lit Hub Film
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Chinelo Okparanta considers William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and the ethics of writing across racial identities. | Lit Hub Criticism
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43 literary movies and TV shows to watch this fall—Kindred! Women Talking! White Noise! And… Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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“They wanted to romanticize the entire world.” How a group of young writers and poets revolutionized 18th-century literature. | Lit Hub History
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Inspired and enraged: Peniel E. Joseph on a lifetime of learning from Black history. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Sally Koslow recommends five (fictional) dysfunctional families in all their chaotic glory. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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The pitch, the hook, the discipline: Tracey Lien offers journalistic techniques and tricks for fiction writers. | Lit Hub Craft
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“I’ve never taken LSD but I have stared at Faith Ringgold’s “Die” and felt something akin to pharmaceutical discombobulation.” A plea for more language to talk about visual art (and artists). | Lit Hub Art
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What healing rituals across cultures tell us about the human condition. | Lit Hub
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How to get away with murder… in the Regency Era. | CrimeReads
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“We should be challenging each other.” Alex Breland talks about creating a book club and discussion space for Black men. | The Chicago Tribune
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Patrick Kern, owner of LGBTQ+ bookstore Little District Books, on adapting “to who the customer is and how the community is changing over time.” | WAMU
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“The deaths in these books are intoxicating because they are never final.” Leslie Jamison on the enduring appeal of Choose Your Own Adventure books. | The New Yorker
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Darren Byler, a translator of the Uyghur-language novel The Backstreets, reflects on his collaboration and friendship with his co-translator, who is presumed to be in a reeducation camp in Xinjiang. | Words Without Borders
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“The mysteries that capture your attention are always shifting, and while you’re not looking, they transform into something else altogether.” Dwyer Murphy on New York noir, cinematic influences, and humor in crime fiction. | LARB
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Andrew Sean Greer on his Pulitzer Prize winner, writing a sequel, and his incontinent pug. | The New York Times
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Writers including Abdulrazak Gurnah and Margaret Atwood will appear alongside Ukrainian authors at Lviv BookForum, streaming next month on a screen near you. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Sylvie Bigar recommends five essential food memoirs • New poetry by Elisa Gabbert • Read a story from Barbara Molinard’s newly translated collection, Panics (tr. Emma Ramadan)