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• Viet Thanh Nguyen explains why most American literature is the literature of empire. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Eleanor Lanahan displays on the literary legacy of The Nice Gatsby, her grandfather’s timeless novel, because it turns 100. | Lit Hub Biography
• Sarah Viren and Vauhini Vara focus on voice, tech, and using AI in writing. | Lit Hub In Dialog
• Maris Kreizman asks what it means to be a very good writer once you publish a e book. | Lit Hub Craft
• “It begins with universities, as a result of universities are this object of resentment and this type of bizarre charisma, unfavorable and constructive.” Molly Fischer talks to Wesleyan president Michael Roth about how faculties ought to reply to Trump’s threats. | The New Yorker
• Denise Lyons explores the position of libraries in catastrophe preparedness and restoration. | Library Journal
• Skijer Huston considers the freeway novel, and “a literature of ambivalence.” | Los Angeles Overview of Books
• Elif Batuman profiles Sayaka Murata: “Instinctively, I grouped Murata with extra radical and fewer nostalgic thinkers: folks like Michel Foucault, who confirmed that so many supposedly organic or common phenomena—insanity, intercourse, criminality, drugs—are socially constructed.” | The New Yorker
• “Whether it is serving to them, does it matter if a bee is aware of it’s unhappy?” Emily Polk considers bees and grief. | Emergence Journal
• What’s there to study from Trump’s Artwork of… books? John Ganz bravely revisits them to search out out. | The Nation
• Stephen Akey remembers working the phone reference desk on the Brooklyn Public Library. | The Hedgehog Overview
• “If any of the politicians who’re in assist of banning books have been to come back into the shop, we’d adore it. As a result of we’d like to pile these books into their arms.” Gale Massey interviews Lauren Groff about her new bookstore, The Lynx. | Southern Literary Overview
• Amit Baishya and Siddhartha Deb focus on storytelling and “the bizarre Anthropocene.” | Public Books
• Artwork Spiegelman remembers Jules Feiffer: “It’s a mongrel artwork—a mutt!—and each nice grasp of comix should discover a new manner to make use of the distinct expertise of writing and drawing to create a brand new manner of remodeling time into house.” | The Atlantic
• Chris Heath dives into Robert Caro’s deserted novel (about an intrepid journalist on a busman’s vacation). | Smithsonian Journal
• Edna Bonhomme considers Zora Neale Hurston’s misplaced epic, The Lifetime of Herod the Nice. | The Nation 
• Gita Jackson seems to be again at the tweet roundup period of running a blog: “Non-fiction writing of every kind is identical form of phantasm; because of this journalists typically push again on the concept of ‘objectivity.’” | Aftermath
• “Whose deviation from the usual is artwork, and whose is error?” Saudamini Deo on the reception of non-Western literature within the Western literary world. | Phrases With out Borders
• Daphne Merkin considers Ruth Franklin’s new biography of Anne Frank, and what extra there may be to study concerning the younger diarist. | The New Republic

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Lynn Steger Sturdy on imaginative fact • 5 takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers • What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught Bridgett M. Davis about writing memoir • The nuance of creating the right e book cowl • Destiny, grief and the sluggish disintegration of a household in Zimbabwe • Camille Aubray recommends retellings of The Nice Gatsby • Literary Hub turns ten years outdated! • Sally Rooney examines the brief tales of Thomas Morris • Katie Kitamura on falling in love together with her characters • Kate People on her aviation-themed homage to Moby-Dick • On the stray moms of literature • Andrea Lengthy Chu explains why she loves Dungeons & Dragons • Jane Ciabattari talks to Kate People about her novel, Sky Daddy • Authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire • Meredith Hambrock on The Sound of Music within the age of tradwives and Trump • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson displays on her great-uncle Lewis Michaux’s Harlem bookstore • Priya Vulchi traces iconic literary and political friendships • Bookseller Lucy Kogler on the publishing business’s waste drawback • Daniel Mendelsohn considers the legacy of Homer’s Odyssey •  Learn from the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy • Ariel Braveness explores America’s polluted city ruins • Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s dedication to free expression • Viet Thanh Nguyen explores “the enjoyment of otherness” •  Jon Hickey’s TBR consists of work by Katie Kitamura and extra • 5 e book opinions you should learn this week • Moeen Farrokhi on translating literature into Farsi • Uttama Kirit Patel recommends books that discover motherhood and intention • On unraveling a brief story right into a novel • Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs on Buffy the Vampire Slayer • One of the best reviewed books of the week • Writing a e book whereas driving the Sam Houston Tollway • Daryl Gregory remembers his mother