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- “Who is telling—and translating—the truth?” Emily Nemens on baseball, translation, and the recent Shohei Ohtani scandal. | Lit Hub Sports
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Alison C. Rollins on silence, Afrofuturism, and writing poems across time: “For me, form is like sculpting sound.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Eleanor Whitney talks to Marisa Crawford about feminist lit, riot grrrl, and who gets to be considered literary. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “When I get there, David is full of nervous energy, pacing up and down, smoking one cigarette after another.” Suzi Ronson on witnessing David Jones became David Bowie. | Lit Hub Music
- Who are you? Mairead Small Staid considers what it means to not recognize ourselves and the ones we love. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Brad Balukjian on falling in love with professional wrestling (and the time Iron Sheik threatened to kill him). | Lit Hub Sports
- “I am both a novelist and a therapist; both a teller of tales, and a listener to them.” Emily Howes on what fiction writing shares with psychotherapy. | Lit Hub Craft
- “…in college, he’d drunkenly purchased an alligator from an exotic pet store in a mall in Rockland County and kept it in his bathtub for several weeks until it grew too large and restless…” Read from Kate Axelrod’s new story collection, How To Get Along Without Me. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Gary Shtyengart takes a cruise on the Icon of the Seas. | The Atlantic
- “It took a few more decades for me to see how the novel presents not an escape from this world but a confrontation with it.” On reading Dune from childhood to adulthood. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Colin Vanderburg considers the life and works of Lyn Hejinian. | n+1
- “Even for people in prison, whose primary currency is time itself, the date felt far-fetched.” On watching a solar eclipse from prison. | JSTOR Daily
- Is every book precious? On the controversial practice of throwing books away. | Salon
- “I had a Xanga and I would write a lot on there.” Stephen Patrick Bell interviews Crystal Hana Kim. | Interview
