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- “One of the biggest dangers of Vance is his implication that Appalachians are not only stupid but ineducable; such is the malicious misconception of thinking people choose to be ill, poor, or down on their luck.” Justin B. Wymer examines JD Vance’s Appalachian grift. | Lit Hub Politics
- Chris Koslowski, Dimitri Nasrallah, Amanda Jones, and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I don’t collect endings, however, to have the final say about my life. In fact, I write against certainty.” Steve Edwards on the gathering of life’s infinite moments. | Lit Hub Craft
- Casey Michel on the long history of dark money and shadowy influence in Washington DC. | Lit Hub Politics
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On writing the story of a husband’s suicide and the tension between fiction and memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
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- “Eloy felt warm. Like when he rolled himself tight in the blanket and rested his head on his mother’s lap while she read him stories.” Read from Alejandro Puyana’s novel Freedom Is a Feast. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Joshua Barone profiles the sometimes-controversial translation (and life) partners, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. | The New York Times
- “If the hour was late and you heard someone in your alleyway with a bombastic voice shouting iambic pentameter into the night, that was probably me.” Al Pacino remembers his early years in the South Bronx. | The New Yorker
- Natalie Middleton explores the many (many) ways to name rain in Hawai’i. | Orion
- On Dostoevsky’s “The Crocodile” (and why it’s his weirdest short story.) | JSTOR Daily
- What’s in a phrase? On the continuing ubiquitousness of “unprecedented times.” | Wired
- J.W. McCormack considers Columbo, the “ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes.” | New York Review of Books
