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TODAY: In 1890, Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.
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“I am fascinated by the mismatch of these two systems, the fact that we can occupy two temporal spaces simultaneously…” Grace Loh Prasad on finding meaning in the space between Chinese and Western astrology, and what it means to remember her translator father. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Jennifer Croft on how photography allows her to “reevaluate my linguistic and narrative choices from a fresh perspective and reframe the central questions of my work.” | Lit Hub Craft
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How the McLaughlin sisters took the photography world by storm, and our cultural fascination with twins. | Lit Hub Photography
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Tana French’s The Hunter, Colum McCann’s American Mother, Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey, and Adelle Waldman’s Help Wanted all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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“I wrote about nature, disaster, and my own dreams; he responded with poems about the love of his life—my mother—who’d left him first in divorce, then later in a helicopter crash.” Poetry by Herbert Gold and his Son, Ari. | Lit Hub Poetry
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Allison Winn Scotch recommends vacation and road trip rom-coms, featuring Neely Tubati Alexander, Jessica Joyce, Beth O’Leary, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“The Watson Girl had only been missing a matter of minutes, yet she could feel the tension mounting, the disaster taking shape.” Read from Katie M. Flynn’s new short story collection, Island Rule. | Lit Hub Fiction
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“American Prometheus had something of an edge on its 2005 competitors because Sherwin had already done an enormous amount of research for an uncompleted Oppenheimer bio in the 1970s.” On Oppenheimer, biography, and biopics. | JSTOR Daily
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What does David Foster Wallace have to teach about tennis? B.J. Hollars explains. | The Millions
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Silvana Paternostro compiles an oral history of the last ten posthumous years of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez. | The Paris Review
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Is the Royal Society of Literature ripping itself to shreds? It may look that way from the outside. | The New Statesman
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“When Cooper left the Academy Awards empty handed, the only person more relieved than that year’s best actor, Rami Malek, was Connor Willumsen.” Watching Bradley Cooper chase his Oscar is its own kind of agony. | The Walrus
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“To stand in front of an audience at such a time, I said, felt like standing in a pool of blood in kidskin shoes.” Selma Dabbagh on speaking at the Karachi Literature Festival. | London Review of Books
