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The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a woman aged 30 or younger.”

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@felipetmedina.bsky.social on how to write a funny book about American immigration.

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Hadi Matar has been found guilty of attempted murder.

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“He’d started out in Paris, then on to Zurich and Prague, cities still vital and unblemished in their appearance; then Frankfurt, Munich, his native Berlin, Vienna, and points east, which were ashes.” Read from Steve Stern’s novel, A Fool’s Kabbalah.

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Breaking out of the quiet forest to share my latest essay for @literaryhub.bsky.social where I consider the pleasures of watching (not-so) old television shows to calm the nerves during a time as jumpy as the present: lithub.com/finding-comf...

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Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social and @jamesfolta.com for letting me yap about my book!

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@jonsavage.bsky.social on how Little Richard brought Black and queer culture to American music: “Like the whole record, they represent a sophisticated synthesis of Black music past and present, a history and a tradition that Richard had lived.”

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Neel Mukherjee talks to Eli Zuzovsky about film, selfhood, and being an Israeli writer today.

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Susan Morrison’s Lorne, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, and Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

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@felipetmedina.bsky.social on finding the humor in immigration.

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@hammerdaily.bsky.social on how Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes each reacted to the assassination of Malcolm X.

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“When in doubt, leave the reaction out.” Eric Puchner on how to be funny when writing a novel.

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“Every month, money drips / into my retirement account. You think the world / will still be around when you’re sixty-five?” Read “Information Worker at the End of the World,” a poem by Stephanie Niu from the collection I Would Define the Sun.

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I chatted with @drewsof.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social about the book world's relationship to, you know, all of this. It was an energizing chat for me, maybe it will be for you lithub.com/this-week-on...

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Love this excerpt from @eveewing.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, citing some great sociological research on the racial wealth gap, discrimination, and their wide-reaching effects: lithub.com/the-great-un...

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This week on The Lit Hub Podcast: How the publishing world can respond to Trump, and “What energizes you?”

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“My mind kept returning to Leo’s, and I’d be sitting opposite Olivia, watching her stir her tea.” Read from Michelle de Kretser’s novel, Theory & Practice.

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William von Hippel on the psychology behind why humans need independence and connection.

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“The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.” RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead.

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Very grateful to have this excerpt from ELEGY, SOUTHWEST - the very beginning - published on @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/elegy-southw...

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@katherinestewart.bsky.social explains how Americans can still keep the rising tide of fascism at bay.

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“My 2025 worries were instantly annihilated while listening to George’s various litanies about not having a girlfriend and then about having one and not knowing how to get rid of her.” Anandi Mishra on the merits of escaping into old television.

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“The book’s effect is hypnotically telescopic, a vision of people we come to know across decades.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.

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What do Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, and Walt Whitman have in common? They self-published.

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@madeleinewatts.bsky.social on the prescient genius of WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn.

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an extraordinary pleasure, talking to RaMell Ross about his Nickel Boys for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ramell-ross-...

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NEW EPISODE: New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about why President Trump wants to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/nicholas-fan...

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Are you the asshole if you think all book covers look the same? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this and your other awkward questions.

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“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” Judith Butler on why democracy needs the humanities.

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@jamesfolta.com on the death penalty under Trump: “It’s a bear hug embrace of capital punishment, which isn’t particularly surprising from a group of people obsessed with cruelty, mockery, and vicious displays of power.”

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“Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.” Read from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social’s novel, Elegy, Southwest.

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Nick Newman explains what novelists can learn from playing Elden Ring.

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@emjsmith.bsky.social meditates on what emails from her dad taught her about the craft of writing.

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Amazon is removing a feature that allows users to download purchased ebooks.

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“It didn’t even occur to me that there were women writers whom Austen had used as models—and whose books I could read, too.” @rebeccaromney.com on her quest to unearth Jane Austen’s influences.

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@yappelbaum.bsky.social explores how the Pilgrims influenced modern ideas about migration.

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Why writers should read Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art.”

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Alex Zamalin on the political power of American countercultures and “revolutionary freedom.”

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How walking helped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir make art: “Simone’s hiking was nothing like Nietzsche’s ‘walking’ or Thoreau’s ‘sauntering.’ She marched. Like a machine.”

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“I wanted a visceral novel, one that could be felt as sensually as Bondarchuk’s scarves grazing the camera.” Elyse Durham on drawing inspiration from Sergei Bondarchuk’s iconic War and Peace adaptation.

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@gabbybellot.bsky.social on how the linguistic erasure of trans people also erases them from history and life: “To only refer to ‘LGB’ history, then, isn’t just a petty linguistic choice. It erases history, creating...a revisionist past in which people like me were not present.”

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“I do not believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem.” Read from Evie Wyld’s novel, The Echoes.

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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on David Ruggles, who opened the first (known) Black-owned bookstore and stocked it “with abolitionist and feminist publications.”

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@haleymelodic.bsky.social explores the hidden activist life of Betty Friedan.

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Books by Evie Wyld, Adam Plunkett, Bruce Robbins, and more are among the 26 new titles out today!

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wrote a wee tribute to David Ruggles, the Black radical bookstore owner, for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

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@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social examines the speaker as a mask in poetry: “…poetry’s narration occupies a flirty, winking middle space: Who’s to say if the narrator is the author?”

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Adam Plunkett on what Robert Frost’s intellectual and literary influences reveal about his artistic philosophy.

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@reproutopia.bsky.social chronicles the rise and fall of #girlboss feminism: “The funeral for ‘trickle-down feminism,’ eerily, keeps repeating itself, suggesting that, every time we report that the girlboss is dead, we’re being wishful.”

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“We’re all shaped by our eras…so at every turn, I asked myself how the historic events I was studying affected my characters’ daily lives and points of view.” @janeciab.bsky.social talks to Elyse Durham about depicting the creative side of the Cold War.

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