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“Even when writing an escapist romance, Wharton is inescapably herself: A brilliantly funny cynic; a razor sharp observer of the mores of the very rich; a chronicler of bad behavior.” Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s pessimistic literary escape The Glimpses of the Moon. | Lit Hub Literary Criticism

In the latest installment of The Journey That Matters, an intimate peek into Ursula Le Guin’s study and her writing process. | Lit Hub

“I don’t know if my writing improved, but I did write differently after I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in early 2016.” Dan O’Brien on how to write a memoir while dying. | Lit Hub Memoir

David Mitchell on life in early-Medieval England the less-than-illustrious origins of the English crown. | Lit Hub History

Alex Dos Santos on The Haunting of Hill House and how horror helps us confront and understand our grief. | Lit Hub Literary Criticism

Melvin L. Rogers revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1926 symposium, “The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed?” | Lapham’s Quarterly

“The only route to Utopia is illuminated by disobedience.” Rachel Vorona Cote on Oscar Wilde’s critical writing. | The Nation

“She dared to speak out loud what others had experienced but were not yet ready to talk about.” Laima Vince recounts the experience of teaching writing to Ukrainian refugee women. | Arrowsmith Press

Carmen Petaccio explores how the college admissions essay has bled into contemporary literature as part of our “application-saturated culture at large.” | Public Books

John McPhee on his sixty-year friendship with Bill Bradley, of the New York Knicks. | The New Yorker

Now in paperback, Liberation Day is the bestselling short story collection from the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo. In stories exploring ideas of power, ethics, and justice, Saunders continues to challenge and surprise.

Don’t miss the first English translations of the original Godzilla novels! “Well worth the wait... captures all the action, emotion, and political edge of the original Japanese texts.” —William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind

LitHub and NYU Press are giving away 25 advanced readers copies of  The House on G Street by Lisandro Pérez, which tells the true story of a family swept into history by the Cuban revolution.

Insomnia, imposter syndrome, and all the ways Rebecca Clarren learned to write her book.

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed.

New fiction from Banana Yoshimoto, trans. Asa Yoneda.

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