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Literary Hubby Kristen Arnett27 Aug 2026
Help, My Writing Group Think My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be This Week, Kristen Arnett Answers Questions About Bad Editors, Novel Draft Panic, and Writing Group Anxieties...
Literary Hubby Jamie Fisher27 Aug 2026
What It Means to Love Elliott Smith Biographer Jamie Fisher on the Melancholic Singer-Songwriter’s Life and Career One of the last videos taken of Elliott Smith shows him at the Fonda Theatre, in...
Literary Hubby Ronda Beaman27 Aug 2026
The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page Ronda Beaman Offers Some Tips For Expressing Our Most Intimate Thoughts on Paper For years, I believed people avoided letter writing because...
Literary Hubby David W. Berner27 Aug 2026
Short But Sweet: Nine Novellas To Read In a Single Afternoon David W. Berner Recommends Per Petterson, Claire Keagan, Helen DeWitt and More In anticipation of the publication of my novella...
Literary Hubby Stephen Greco27 Aug 2026
Six Novels That Try to Keep Up With Elizabeth Taylor Stephen Greco Recommends Kitty Kelley, C. David Heymann, John Waters, and More I first saw Elizabeth Taylor in The VIPs, when I was a moony and...
Literary Hubby Book Marks27 Aug 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week "Rare indeed to find a real reporter who is also a real thinker. And the bastard’s funny, too."
Literary Hubby Elizabeth Letts27 Aug 2026
Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family “The past belongs to no one, and as such, it also belongs to everyone.” In my living room a framed photograph hangs on...
Literary Hubby Wallis Wilde-Menozzi27 Aug 2026
A Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda “Anedda’s capacity to create a deeper frame of reference builds as she lets the world speak.” “In my poetry,”...
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts27 Aug 2026
The sunlight streaming through the arrival hall windows was a dirty gold the afternoon our flight from Paris landed.
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts27 Aug 2026
It was twilight. A horse approached, and from its speed it was clear that it intended to cross me. It wanted to leave Khanaqin as quick as possible and cross to Iran.
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen26 Aug 2026
In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is accepting donations. The queen is dead, long live the queen!
Literary Hubby Ellen O'Connell Whittet26 Aug 2026
Long Live Dolly Parton, Giver of Books Ellen O'Connell Whittet on the Radical Enterprise of the Imagination Library I signed my first baby up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when she was one...
Literary Hubby Catherine Lacey26 Aug 2026
Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature In Praise of Montserrat Roig’s Goodbye Ramona, Translated by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall Montserrat Roig’s 1972 classic...
Literary Hubby Sarah Mesle26 Aug 2026
What Anne of Green Gables Reveals About White Girlhood Sarah Mesle Explores the Myths Behind the Power of White Femininity in 1980s America “How dare you!” Anne Shirley seethes.
Literary Hubby Sarah Montague26 Aug 2026
Self-Mythologizing on the Radio: A Brief History of Audio Patriotism In the Semiquincentennial Year, Sarah Montague Reflects on American Narratives It feels fitting, in the country’s...
Literary Hubby Drew Buxton26 Aug 2026
7 Novels About Obsessive Athletes Drew Buxton Recommends Julie Otskuka, Ashton Politanoff, Quan Barry, and More Accomplishment in sports, unlike in most other areas of life, is concrete...
Literary Hubby Jessica Sequeira26 Aug 2026
Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s The Eighth Wonder “Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts...
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts26 Aug 2026
The last time I saw my mother, she walked me to the door to say goodbye. Then, before closing it again, she waited until I disappeared down the funnel of the stairwell.
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen25 Aug 2026
Everything we know (so far) about Billie Eilish’s Bell Jar. Earlier this year, we got wind that Billie Eilish—that reigning maestra of youthful melancholy—will star in a new film adaptation of...
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen25 Aug 2026
Explore a rare collection of LGBTQ+ children’s books dating back to 1969. The Mechanics’ Institute, one of the oldest cultural institutions on the West Coast, is now home to a thrilling archive of...
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