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- 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 from the elevator to her office?” How Jessica Craig-Martin handled larger-than-life egos while working at Vanity Fair. | Lit Hub Memoir
- We’re two rounds of voting away from crowing the Best Literary TV Adaptation of all time! Don’t miss your chance to help your favorite show make it to the top. | Lit Hub
- “Black women had been birthing, rearing, and mothering for centuries yet documentation of our collective and individual experience couldn’t be found. I was infuriated. I ached.” On Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers and the necessity of archiving Black motherhood. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Annie Proulx Stories, James Gleick’s The Telephone, Siân Hughes’s No Such Thing As Monday, and Lauren Elkin’s Vocal Break all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Maya Abuali considers books by Kaveh Akbar and Sally Rooney that explore the grief of political paralysis. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Your first novel is the crappy scarf you make with acrylic yarn that doesn’t come out straight or even.” Why writing is like knitting. | Lit Hub Craft
- Kelly Grace Thomas on structure, storytelling, and assembling a page-turner of a poetry collection. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I was twenty-one and taking a train to Prague. The sun was blazing through the dirty windows of the old Czechoslovakian carriage as passengers looked out at the scenery and blew smoke.” Read from Dora Šustić’s novel Dogs, translated by Ena Selimović. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Martin Dolan considers the enduring appeal of the puzzle game. | The Baffler
- Kristen Roupenian considers Jane Schoenbrun’s Public Access Afterworld alongside Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. | New York Review of Books
- Between AI and literary scams, trust between readers and writers is becoming more precarious. | The Atlantic
- Jessica Winter considers the hellscape of ed-tech in the classroom. | The New Yorker
- Why the phrase “cultural Marxism” is on every right-winger’s lips. | Jacobin
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