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- “How is queer history incorporated into the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Siba blue roses and ambiguity of evidence. | lit hub criticism
- “I don’t remember the exact content of the poem, but it was the first time I saw someone around me writing poetry. It was very surprising and I felt that I too could write like this.” This on translation and how it feels to finish a poem. | Lit Hub in conversation
- Serena Chopra’s TBR includes work by Susan Bryant, Sappho, Christopher Marmolejo, and others. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Walter Mosley finds out what the novel is (and explains why it’s not a machine). | Lit Hub Craft
- Vanessa Miller recommends BIPOC-focused historical fiction, including works by Sadequa Johnson, Rashonda Tate, Vanessa Riley, and others. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Maggie O’Farrell’s landAnn Patchett’s Whistlerand Andrew Sean Greer Villa Coco convenience among all Best Reviewed Fiction Titles of June. | book marks
- “I think I’ve always written stories because I spent all my school holidays at my aunt’s place.” Read from Valerie Perrin ByeTranslated by Hildegarde Searle. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Ishmael Reed reflects on the strange incident Rappers who support Trump. | Nation
- “He has cleverly escaped these traps, partly by ensuring that each of his books is radically different from the last.” Julian Lucas profiles Colson Whitehead. | the new Yorker
- Jessica Luo explores its uses (and lack thereof) Obama Presidential Center. | Hedgehog Review
- “I think it kind of exemplifies what I try to do with my work, which is to take something completely ordinary and elevate it in a way that you might not have considered, so in that sense that story is a perfect example of what I think I do as a writer.” Suzanne Orlean talks to Brendan O’Meara. | longreads
- Emily C. Hughes on Prognostic, roe vs wade, and evil motherhood. | turncoat
- Gina Anne Tam reflects on two new books that explore What does freedom mean on the internet? | Los Angeles Review of Books
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