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- Through layers of loss and grief, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the most desperate times, art, writing and human connection are radical acts of repair.” Lit Hub
- Deb Olin Unfurth explores the necessity of writing speculative fiction in this time and place. | Lit Hub Craft
- Brad Gooch describes the surreal passage of time in suburban America. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- “Whether emerging in dark Gothic stories or permeating a sunny suburban world, fear haunts the imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.” 5 reviews you need to read this week. | book marks
- Why each novel is a climate change novel: “Like a floral calendar, each novel records what we are able to imagine at this time of terror, confusion, and longing.” | Lit Hub Craft
- This week on the podcast Passage: On Morrison, Namali Serpell and Angela Flournoy discuss Toni Morrison tar baby. |Lit Hub in conversation
- Here are this week’s Independent Press top 40 bestsellers Imagination And non fiction stories. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Isabelle Weidner’s As ifDanielle Allen’s radical dukeand Amitav Ghosh’s ghost eye convenience among all Best reviewed books of the week. | book marks
- Samuel Moyn has proposed caregiving as a solution to ending American gerontocracy. | Lit Hub Politics
- Is your friend going to name all the cool, famous writers she hangs out with? Kristen Arnett answers this question and more. | Lit Hub Advice
- “I think there’s some value in these kinds of understated hypothetical offerings that make anything possible.” Understanding an absent father through fiction. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- If you want to write a novel in 33 days, try peering into your unconscious. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Just as Sylvia Upshaw and her two children were putting on their shoes, about to walk to Mrs. Talbot’s house, there came three knocks at the front door.” Read from De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s new novel, fiery whites. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Children are our little companions – they live in our triumphs and failures.” Hal Shrive surveys children’s literature from a socialist perspective. | lux
- Patricia Lockwood wants to know What’s happening to American Catholicism. | london review of books
- “Telling someone you were shorting their stock was like telling them their child was ugly. And this was Blackstone, for crying out loud.” The evil reality of development. | baffler
- Remembering Virginia McGee Richards Enslaved South Carolinians who marched to freedom Along the interior route of the Lowcountry. | mit press reader
- Cookbook author and Substack darling Julia Turshen There’s a romance novel on the way (And yes, there’s food). | cultured
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