THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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- What happened to the “make book?” Maris Kreizman considers the conundrum with debut novels. | Lit Hub
- Why are so many biographies of women written from the perspectives of men? | Lit Hub Biography
- Rebecca Perry’s TBR features Anne Carson, Federico García Lorca, and Will Keohane. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How humans made the Loch Ness Monster (out of a desire to know the truth). | Lit Hub Memoir
- “It is austerity—the blighting redirection of every dime and dollar toward ultra-elite profit and cascadingly away from literally anything else—that fixes all our horizons.” Why we need unions more than ever, in higher education and beyond. | Lit Hub Politics
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to be speculative.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “Sometimes in the morning I remember thinking: it is the sorrow of leaving a place you’re not done loving yet.” Read from Lance Olsen’s new novel, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The dream, even for a nonmonogamist like myself, is The One, the book that makes all others disappear, that enchants you completely and exclusively until the last page boots you back out into the world.” Maggie Shipstead on her omnivorous reading habits. | Longreads
- The spookiest boom: Horror bookstores are cropping up everywhere. | The New York Times
- It’s about time you read your way across Texas. | Texas Highways
- The life and death of a workplace AI assistant (or, a publishing horror story). | Wired
- Why Nate Lippens’s Wisconsin Trilogy is “a diagnosis dressed up in a rhinestone gown, shining brightly before a trick of the light reveals the rot underneath.” | The New Yorker
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