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TODAY: In 2015 English journalist, author, and screenwriter Terry Pratchett dies.
- Marie Mutsuki Mockett discusses The Tale of Genji and guides you along a visual journey through its contents and historical context. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Hala Alyan, Nam Le, Adelle Waldman and more. Teddy Wayne asks five authors seven questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Is collaborating with the soldiers killing our Palestinian colleagues a good way to be in ‘solidarity’ with them?” Steven W. Thrasher on the hypocrisy of American media executives. | Lit Hub Politics
- Jane Ciabattari interviews Rita Bullwinkel: “I think sports and novel writing are both acts of extraordinary endurance that require some sense of abandon and willful delusion.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “If you see me marvel / at mushrooms that devour plastic, / what do you observe?” Read a poem from […] by Fady Joudah. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Tommy Orange on the genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and its place as “sacred fiction.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- From Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Vinson Cunningham, here are twenty-three new books out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The day is white; its glare burns if you look straight at the sky. The air is still. An angel perches with folded wings on one of the mausoleums, pitch‑black against the incandescent clouds.” Read from Marina Yuszczuk’s Thirst, translated by Heather Cleary. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Maya Binyam profiles Percival Everett, “American literature’s philosopher king—and its sharpest satirist.” | The New Yorker
- “We have not yet begun to understand the courage of the child who says she is a girl for the first time without any biological ‘proof’ to back this up.” Andrea Long Chu on the liberal anti-trans panic, Judith Butler and the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies. | New York Magazine
- Tracy Fuad in conversation with Meg Miller: “I’ve thought a lot about the word naive and that I want to reclaim that as a positive mode of being bare to the world, a way to encounter the world in a more unmediated way.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Black history, immigrant experiences, trans people, and more! Boxes of removed library books were found in a Staten Island public school’s trash, and no one knows who put them there. | Gothamist
- “Ghost-writing is an intense, intimate, emotionally charged process that recalls both the awkwardness of a blind date and the oversharing of the therapy room.” Liam Pieper on being a ghost writer. | The Guardian
- “Writers are often our own worst readers. For instance, I didn’t know the book was funny.” Catherine Newman interviews Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. | Public Books
