TODAY: In 1936, C.K. Williams is born.
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How to bake black pepper snowballs… vengefully. | Lit Hub Food
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Costumes, plotting, mise-en-scène, monologues: Lyle Jeremy Rubin on how war becomes a (deadly) performance. | Lit Hub Memoir
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They lie to us, they weigh about as much as a hardback copy of Infinite Jest, and other fun facts about—drumroll, please—the brain. | Lit Hub Science
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Helene Atwan recounts the remarkable experience of publishing Gayl Jones, the best American novelist to disappear (and come back) twice. | Lit Hub
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Serena Burdick on lessons learned from a 17-year journey to publication: “It takes a certain amount of endurance, a letting go, and a willingness to trust in the thing you love.” | Lit Hub
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“Sherry hadn’t known what exactly to expect because she had never been to Mexico or had an abortion.” What abortion looked like in 1968. | Lit Hub Politics
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Bono’s Surrender, Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song, and Claire Keegan’s Foster all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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The best new crime and mystery novels out this November. | CrimeReads
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“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s The Country Girls growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women.” Rapid-fire book recs from Bono. | The New York Times
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From Reading Lolita in Tehran to Persepolis, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson recommends books that offer insight into Iranian women’s lives. | NPR
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Elias Rodriques talks to Saidiya Hartman about her groundbreaking book, Scenes of Subjection, 25 years after its initial publication. | The Nation
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“I’m writing a poet on the other side of the world in the middle of a war for your country. What am I to say?” Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan exchange letters about the tough places they come from. | NYRB
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Adrienne Westenfeld considers the problems of storytelling in the age of the mega-franchise. | Esquire
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Brigitte Giraud has won the Prix Goncourt—the 13th woman to do so in 120 years. | The Guardian
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“I want to make sure I say it all, if I can.” David Duchovny talks to Sadie Rebecca Starnes about writing. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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