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- Lit Hub Editor in Chief Jonny Diamond on the importance of mutual aid in these cruel American times. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Poetry can be an outlet for us to keep memory, record events, and experience the intensity of events, especially historical ones.” Dorsía Silva Smith talks to Poets.org. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Julian Zabalbeascoa on using fiction to explore representations of fascism and his family’s experience of the Spanish Civil War. | Lit Hub Craft
- “To love a landscape is no less effort, and no less imagined even in all its obvious palpability.” Anna Farro Henderson reflects on romance, distance, and change as she studies a Maine marshland. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Ann Patchett introduces the annotated edition of one of her best known novels: “If you’ve never read Bel Canto, this is not the place to start.” | Lit Hub Fiction
- “They’re drowning out gophers on Gordon’s hill.” Read from Heidi Bell’s collection, Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse & Other Stories. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Macmillan authors and staff are in open revolt over the Children’s Marketing VP’s support of Trump | Publishers Weekly
- How unions, including those representing writers and academics, are taking on AI. | Jacobin
- “Dante’s wife was an Italian woman named Gemma Donati, though he never wrote a single poem about her.” Emily Zarevich explores the life of Beatrice Portinari. | JSTOR Daily
- Matt Broaddus on Augusto Monterroso’s The Gold Seekers, “a fun mix of personal archaeology and literary autobiography in an erudite yet concise package.” | The Paris Review
- Zephyr Teachout, Bill McKibben, and more reflect on Trump’s reelection. | New York Review of Books
- Victor LaValle talks to Jeff VanderMeer about the natural world and writing from experience. | Interview
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