Literature

September 9, 2024, 1:35pm This back-to-school season brings bad tidings for dissent. Here in the U.S., academic institutions continue to restrict, thwart, and punish pro-Palestinian speech from students, employees, and teachers alike. After coming under fire for their treatment of campus protesters last term, New York University admins dropped an updated code of conduct that
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It was at his cousin Eleanor’s home in Cambridge, Tom recalled. A small party, an impromptu game of charades. He stepped on Emily Hale’s feet—and promptly fell in love with her. Article continues after advertisement For decades, their story was hidden away, a matter of scholarly speculation. A few months before Eliot married his secretary,
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Jonathan LethemIf anyone really visualizes my routine—do they do that? I don’t do this, not really. But if they did, I suspect the surprise would be how little I’m glued to my chair. The process is typically one of brief outbursts
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1879,  Arthur Conan Doyle’s first published story, “The Mystery of Sasassa Valley,” appears in Chambers’s Journal. “The height of American cool is grace and redemption, refined into art. A lightning strike of that transformation happened in the Bronx.” Ian Frazier on the early history of
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1911, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.  Rachel Kushner takes the Lit Hub questionnaire (and tells us about throwing a Brett Easton Ellis novel across the room). | Lit Hub In Conversation If
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ease into the weekend with a highlight reel of this week’s most popular posts. There’s so much good horror coming out this September. It was hard to narrow it down to just ten titles to share with you.
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September 6, 2024, 9:00am As Publishers Weekly reported this week, the Internet Archive, nonprofit home to a robust digital library, has lost its latest appeal in a case brought by publishers. A panel from New York’s Second Circuit “has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive’s program to scan and
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Yashvi Peeti is an aspiring writer and an aspiring penguin. She has worked as an editorial intern with Penguin Random House India and HarperCollins Publishers India. She is always up for fangirling over poetry, taking a walk in a park, and painting tiny canvases. You can find her on Instagram @intangible.perception View All posts by
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1957, On the Road is published. “I’ve never felt the presence of my own death so close to me,” writes Nahil Mohana while chronicling the toll of living with endless displacement and fear in Gaza. | Lit Hub Memoir Shannon Bowring asks, “How do you
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Early in the summer of 2022, I had spoken to several friends of mine who worked at our public library. There was rumor afoot that a library board member had been making comments about LGBTQIA+ books and was questioning the purchase of certain books. These librarians all had an impending sense of doom that there
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