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- Anthony Aycock looks back island tree vs pico, The first (and only) book banning case heard by the Supreme Court. | Lit Hub Politics
- Maris Kreizman recommends 40 great books you might have forgotten (that you should read instead of J.D. Vance’s memoir). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- TV writer and novelist Rashid Newson talks to Spiro Skantos about the differences between writing for the page and the screen. | lit hub tv
- Here are this week’s Independent Press top 40 bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “The hypocrisy of the Waynes only makes communion Almost unreadable. You don’t need me to tell you this, but he’s not a good Catholic.” 5 book reviews you should read this week. | book marks
- Chloe Chapin explores the meanings behind men’s fashion trends in early American history. | lit hub style
- This week on the podcast Excerpt: On MorrisonNamwali Serpell and Kathy Park Hong discuss Toni Morrison jazz. | Lit Hub in conversation
- The long, strange linguistic history of the letter W Lit Hub History
- “Before anything else, you are a daughter.” Read from Kay Kim’s first novel, The Future Perfect. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I have always believed that the verbal nature of language contributes to its solid, factual pronunciation. There are some things you write that you almost never say out loud.” aithana miller on Working to preserve the Pennsylvania Dutch. | dial
- PSA: It always happens A good day to break ties with Amazon. | Halmel
- JJ Anselmi collects an oral history Opposition to data centers. | new republic
- Kaweh Akbar, Eileen Miles, and more Queer American authors choose their favorite gay American books. | Guardian
- “When a work difficult for a literary culture becomes more embarrassing than prestigious, the diagnosis falls not on the book but on the culture that has decided that difficulty is socially inconvenient.” Ebadur Rahman has done some thoughts on canon. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Ben Phillips admits The complex poetic legacy of JH Prynne. | n+1
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