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4+ hour, 58+ min ago  (59+ words) Literary Hub The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction For the week ending April 5, 2026 Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled,…...

4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (45+ words) Literary Hub Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus....

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21+ hour, 43+ min ago  (1119+ words) Writing Freedom is recognition and growth and community and, now, lineage," said 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow B Batchelor in a statement. It is the best thing to ever happen for my writing, for the marginalized and oft-silenced community I represent, and…...

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1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (309+ words) A Poem by Mark Nowak'Literary Hub A Poem by Mark Nowak SOMEWHERE THERE IS SUNSHINE AND SOMEWHERE ELSE THERE ARE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLOODS SOMEWHERE THERE IS SILENCE AND SOMEWHERE THERE IS TOO MUCH SOUND IN A COUNTRY LIKE THIS COUNTRY…...