Reading at bars is cool, actually.
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A syllabus for those of you who love Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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“Blurt #1—Awake Session 1. What is it like to wake up in deep space? Eh. Not glamorous.” Read from Jessie Ren Marshall’s new short story collection, Women! In! Peril!
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Tom Maxwell on how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulated radio station ownership and halted indie rock in America.
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Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar, Alexandra Fuller’s Fi, and Anne Lamott’s Somehow all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.
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“The silence of our institutions stands on 75 years of inertia.” Sarah Cypher on using her PEN nomination to protest for Palestine.
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Do you really understand the difference between morals and ethics? Eli Burnstein shares a visual guide to the nuances of the English language.
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This @LitHub overview of all the people declining or withdrawing from PEN awards is a great look at a blossoming solidarity, and also serves a very handy reading list

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Revisit our discussion with author Jeff Boyd about romance, religion, and race in Portland, Oregon in this back episode from April 13, 2023. Now on YouTube!

cc Whitney Terrell V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan Literary Hub

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Kelly E. Hill on the Home for Friendless Women and giving voice to women who defied societal norms in the nineteenth century.
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Don’t know how to end your poem? Emily Skaja suggests 50 ways.
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“There is a street in Seoul where all the homosexuals go to buy drinks, linger, fall in love, or just spend the night in a love motel.” Read from Ery Shin’s new novel, Spring on the Peninsula.
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A list of unionized (and unionizing) publishers and bookstores.
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“The collection reads like a juvenile burn book, totally uninterested in the world outside her group chat.” The much-ballyhooed Bookforum review of Lauren Oyler’s No Judgement, and more of the reviews you need to read this week.
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“For Paul, the question was, and remains: How can anyone not see the senseless death in Gaza as cruel?”

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“I think one of the features of nonfiction today is that, to a degree, a book could be written by anyone possessed of a certain level of knowledge.” George Makari interviews Geoff Dyer.
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If you have trouble keeping a journal, maybe it’s okay to stop trying. Dennis Tang on the joys of not writing it all down.
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In the wake of the news that Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has cancer, author Sandi Wisenberg joins @WsTerrell & V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan to talk about the control that public—and private—figures should have over the disclosure of their diagnoses. Lit Hub Radio @lithub lithub.com/s-l-wisenberg-…

Robert Pranzatelli on the Pilobolus Dance Theatre and finding community in the creation of corporeal art.
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“The tabloid-style reporting by writers of the early twentieth century is consistent with a long tradition of such storytelling about artists.” Jim Moske explores the Met Archives for posthumous artist stories lost to time.
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