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- “One of Vance’s greatest dangers is his implication that Appalachians are not only stupid but also uneducable; the pernicious misconception that people choose to be sick, poor, or unlucky.” Justin B. Wymer examines JD Vance’s Appalachian fraud. | Lit Hub Politics
- Chris Koslowski, Dimitri Nasrallah, Amanda Jones and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I don’t collect endings, however, to have the last word on my life. In fact, I write against certainty.” Steve Edwards on collecting life’s infinite moments. | Lit Hub Craft
- Casey Michel on the long history of dark money and shady influence in Washington DC. | Lit Hub Politics
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On writing the story of a husband’s suicide and the tension between fiction and memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
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- “Eloy felt warm. Like when he wrapped himself tightly in the blanket and laid his head on his mother’s lap while she read him stories.” Read from Alejandro Puyana’s novel Freedom is a celebration. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Joshua Barone Profile the sometimes controversial translation (and life) partners, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. | The New York Times
- “If it was late and you heard someone in your alley with a bombastic voice screaming iambic pentameter into the night, it was probably me.” Al Pacino remembers his early years in the South Bronx. | The New Yorker
- Natalie Middleton explores the many (many) ways to name rain in Hawaii. | Orion
- On Dostoyevsky’s “The Crocodile” (and why it’s his strangest short story.) | JSTOR Daily
- What’s in a phrase? On the continued omnipresence of “unprecedented times.” | Wired
- JW McCormack says ColumboThe “Sherlock Holmes in reverse.” | New York Review of Books
