What being a Bills fan can teach you about writing (even when they lose). | Lit Hub Craft “True, the maze of indistinguishable cubicles was confusing, but was it not odd that the editor in chief didn’t know the way
What being a Bills fan can teach you about writing (even when they lose). | Lit Hub Craft “True, the maze of indistinguishable cubicles was confusing, but was it not odd that the editor in chief didn’t know the way
What’s kept us interested in The Sun Also Rises after a century, despite “some barbed wire and thorns in the perimeter of its effects, ones that must be leapt past and over”? Adam Gopnik considers its legacy. | Lit Hub
Zachary Fletcher interviews former New York Times romance columnist Olivia Waite about being fired and the current state of romance criticism. | Lit Hub In Conversation Are we living in a simulation? Is AI a philosophical zombie? Catherine Heymans considers
Eve Sneider on the genius of Janet Malcolm, who “was running circles around everyone else.” | Lit Hub Biography The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be telephoned. | Lit Hub History Jane Ciabattari talks to Karen Olsson, author
What’s the best literary TV adaptation of all time? Vote in the first round of our bracket to help your favorite shows make it to the top! | Lit Hub If you’re a writer, being a fangirl online might pay
Katherine Kelaidis on Sergey Davydov and why stories of ordinary life are essential in times of political upheaval: “Hatred and division, the business of political conflict, are not the organizing principles of his inner world. Love is.” | Lit Hub
Ed Simon explores the symbol of Guy Fawkes and V for Vendetta‘s anti-authoritarian afterlives. | Lit Hub Criticism Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on lessons learned from June Jordan: “Life is ACTION, inaction is DEATH! If you can’t see that, at this
Whether it’s new book smell or old book smell, the history of book collecting is aromatic. | Lit Hub History Megan Mayhew explores “analog minds” and the reading life of John Elder. | Lit Hub Craft On Olivia Manning and
How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholicism impacted his writing: “Tolkien, it is fair to say, saw God everywhere…above all, in his art.” | Lit Hub Biography Stephen Thrasher considers NAZA and the balance of journalistic duty and ethical responsibility in documentary filmmaking.
How A Working Mother, Agnes Owens’s novel of the Scottish working class, reveals “the surrealness of everyday life.” | Lit Hub Criticism Caroline Carlson recommends great children’s books coming in November by Neil Sharpson, Avi Steinberg, Gideon Sterer and more.
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