TODAY: In 1939, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is published. [/caption]
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“There is waste in nature, waste in art, and plenty of waste in the lives of women.” What can we learn from the vast archive of Muriel Rukeyser’s unfinished work? | Lit Hub Biography
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The rich rule the world, writes Lauren Carroll Harris, and those rulers will soon be the sector of millennials who stand to inherit their parents’ assets. | Lit Hub
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“Just typing it seems like a waste of life.” Antonia Pont against (the very idea of) procrastination. | Lit Hub Philosophy
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Malevolent minor characters: How a mundane anthropologist and bureaucrat helped contribute to American colonialism. | Lit Hub History
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“While this book opened a window into another world for so many young girls like me, it was, for Selby, a tortuous reminder of a door that had closed so early.” Tova Mirvis on A Very Young Dancer and the life of its subject. | Lit Hub
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones considers the “historiographic smear campaign” leveraged against ancient Persia. | Lit Hub History
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Michele Filgate on Samantha Hunt, Joyce Maynard on Delia Ephron, Lucie Elven on Anne Serre, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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Stacey Halls recommends novels of power, deception, and control. | CrimeReads
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WATCH: N. K. Jemisin talks to the next generation of the Octavia Project, which fosters spaces of imagination for NYC teens. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
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Here’s how the Brooklyn Public Library is contributing to the fight against ongoing book bans around the country. | NPR
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Tirzah Price asks what books belong in the queer YA canon. | Book Riot
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Farah Abdessamad lists books that found a second life in English translation. | The Atlantic
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Why won’t the MFA discourse die? | Quite Useless
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“Putting down one of her books is like coming up for air.” Lucie Elven reads Anne Serre. | London Review of Books
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Amanda Gorman discusses her poetic roots. | Los Angeles Times
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“His work connects the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries in ways readers and critics are only beginning to apprehend.” Christian Lorentzen on Gary Indiana’s essays. | Jacobin
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