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Lit Hub Daily: April 20, 2017
TODAY: In 1908, Henry Chadwick, often called the “Father of Baseball” for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game, dies. Allen Ginsberg on the origins of the term...
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Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2017
TODAY: In 1947, Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet, dies. Murakami vs. Bolano? On competing visions of the global novel. | Literary Hub Meet the teenager who’s reading a...
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5 Questions for Granta’s Best Young American Novelists
Every ten years Granta Magazine publishes a special issue titled Best of Young American Novelists, a collection of new fiction by the best young American writers under the age of 40. The last issue was...
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10 More of the Best Young American Novelists
Yesterday, Granta released their once-a-decade list of the “most exciting American novelists under the age of forty.” There are plenty of deserving names on the list—Ben Lerner! Ottessa Moshfegh! Dinaw...
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Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists
Only once a decade does Granta dedicate an issue to young American talent by choosing 20 novelists under 40 to highlight. This year, the young talent was so overwhelming that they made it 21; in 2017,...
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30 of Literary Fiction’s Most Risqué Book Covers
Recently at Literary Hub Headquarters (read: the bar down the street from our actual office), the editorial staff sat around discussing the books—and more specifically, the book covers—that have drawn...
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Two Never Before Published Letters from Marcel Proust to His Neighbor
Translated from the French by Lydia Davis. [July or August 1915] Madame, I hope that you will not find me too indiscreet. I have had a great deal of noise these past few days and as I am not well, I am...
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7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)
An English teacher once asked me, “Are you a writer or an editor?” This isn’t an unusual question, it seems: plenty of writers (and readers) have come up against it, even if it all just boils down to...
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Literary Highlights from Everyone’s Favorite Wedding Column
Everyone loves some good literary gossip. To be fair, everyone loves good gossip of any kind. I shouldn’t have to explain this. I admit that I only recently discovered the trials and joys of the Vows...
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In Praise of Sayaka Murata
I think the riskiest kind of novel is the one that tries to rescue us from mundane existence—by taking a closer look at mundane existence. If the tone falls flat, than the action is simply a series of...
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“Lagomorph”
Some nights, when the rabbit and I are both down on the floor playing tug of war with his toy carrot, he will suddenly freeze in one position and stop everything, as if a great breakthrough has finally...
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Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2017
TODAY: In 1947, Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet, dies. Murakami vs. Bolano? On competing visions of the global novel. | Literary Hub Meet the teenager who’s reading a...
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5 Questions for Granta’s Best Young American Novelists
Every ten years Granta Magazine publishes a special issue titled Best of Young American Novelists, a collection of new fiction by the best young American writers under the age of 40. The last issue was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 More of the Best Young American Novelists
Yesterday, Granta released their once-a-decade list of the “most exciting American novelists under the age of forty.” There are plenty of deserving names on the list—Ben Lerner! Ottessa Moshfegh! Dinaw...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists
Only once a decade does Granta dedicate an issue to young American talent by choosing 20 novelists under 40 to highlight. This year, the young talent was so overwhelming that they made it 21; in 2017,...
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30 of Literary Fiction’s Most Risqué Book Covers
Recently at Literary Hub Headquarters (read: the bar down the street from our actual office), the editorial staff sat around discussing the books—and more specifically, the book covers—that have drawn...
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Two Never Before Published Letters from Marcel Proust to His Neighbor
Translated from the French by Lydia Davis. [July or August 1915] Madame, I hope that you will not find me too indiscreet. I have had a great deal of noise these past few days and as I am not well, I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)
An English teacher once asked me, “Are you a writer or an editor?” This isn’t an unusual question, it seems: plenty of writers (and readers) have come up against it, even if it all just boils down to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Literary Highlights from Everyone’s Favorite Wedding Column
Everyone loves some good literary gossip. To be fair, everyone loves good gossip of any kind. I shouldn’t have to explain this. I admit that I only recently discovered the trials and joys of the Vows...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Praise of Sayaka Murata
I think the riskiest kind of novel is the one that tries to rescue us from mundane existence—by taking a closer look at mundane existence. If the tone falls flat, than the action is simply a series of...
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