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- Are you the asshole if you want to tell your friends they have bad taste in poetry? Kristen Arnett answers this awkward question and more. | Lit Hub Craft
- What was it like to see something no one had ever seen before? Edward Dolnick on the rigorous (but humorous) ways humans first studied dinosaurs. | Lit Hub History
- “The majority of the players on the Cubs came from deaf families, giving them added stability at home.” How football built community among deaf students in the shadow of COVID. | Lit Hub Sports
- Read a poem by Carl Phillips from the collection Scattered Snows, to the North: “Does it matter that the Roman / Empire was still early in its slow / unwinding into never again?” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “As in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, sometimes there are weird men in his closets.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Ben Ehrenreich remembers the jasmine of Ramallah and considers the impossibility of narrative containment. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Although Jesus freaks reflected hippie counterculture, they were also the spiritual children of the new evangelicals.” Eliza Griswold on emerging waves of evangelicals in the 1970s and 80s. | Lit Hub Religion
- “The one place where I can picture my mother clearly, and be absolutely sure it is an image from my own mind, is in the orchard.” Read from Siân Hughes’ debut novel, Pearl. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “My mother has read my novel and is my biggest champion. Soon I will get to read her new work—in translation, sized up to a 24-point font.” Abraham Chang on publishing and aging. | Esquire
- Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction plans to put a Bible in every (public!) classroom in the state. | Slate
- “Just this once, I want to tell the story as a dog would. To tell it straight, for her. To make her the only story.” Sloane Crosley says goodbye to a beloved cat. | The New Yorker
- How the Frankfurt School engaged with Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. | Jacobin
- “I see that for the moment your morale is good. I hope this will last.” Read four letters between siblings Simone and André Weil. | The Paris Review
- What happens when a digital publication is ripped from the web? Luke Plunkett on the end of Game Informer and why website owners need to archive work. | Aftermath
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