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Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.
4+ hour, 41+ min ago —...Aguda, and Diego Gerard Morrison.... ...’ novel about Ella Fitzgerald, Zoe Schlanger on the wondrous, humbling... ...–Margo Jefferson Nina St.... ...–Anne-Marie Turza Magdalena Zyzak, The Lady Waiting (Riverhead) “...
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What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators
4+ hour, 34+ min ago —...and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo in June of 1914... ...I knew by heart the story of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand... ...Wilfred Owen.... ...I wrote to Jeff Gusky and asked if I could come to France and see...
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Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough
4+ hour, 35+ min ago —...Baldassare Castiglione, in The Book of the Courtier, defined it as... ..., paraphrasing George Frazier, defines sprezzatura as “spirit and... ...In Paolo Sorrentino’s film The Great Beauty, Jep Gambardella and... ...are writers whose baroque sentences leave nothing unsaid (Nabokov, McCarthy...
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How Black Female Jazz Performers Confronted a Racist and Misogynistic World
4+ hour, 33+ min ago —...Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary describes a jazzman as “a... ...performer of jazz,” with the term dating back to the Jazz Age in... ...Louis Armstrong and her Chicago Creolians,” an all-girl band of fourteen... ...Ellington, Armstrong, and Basie weren’t exempt from such misogyny...
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One great short story to read today: Ling Ma’s “Office Hours”
20+ hour, 23+ min ago —...share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest... ...“Office Hours” by Ling Ma I don’t want to say too much about this...
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Lit Hub Daily: May 6, 2024
20+ hour, 31+ min ago —...Hub Memoir - Ariel Dorfman recommends Latin American literature... ....” | Lit Hub Nature - Nina Sharma on Shiva’s dreadlocks and navigating... ...Mandy Shunnarah on Mahmoud Darwish and writing Palestinian poetry... .... | The Offing - Rachel Cusk and Ira Sachs discuss ”novelistic”...
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On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family
1+ day, 3+ hour ago —...He knows I am a writer.... ...Oftentimes, a reader asks what it’s like to publish a memoir with... ...Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong is available now via... ...Rose Salane collected lost rings from Atlantic City, bringing them...
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How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability
1+ day, 4+ hour ago —...I read Fosse’s play Vinter (Winter) in his original New Norwegian... ...(who I consider my aunt and uncle) introduced me to the work of Jon... ...For example, in the second scene of Natta Syng Sine Songar / Night... ...process of Natta Syng Sine Songar / Night Sings Its Songs, with...
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More Than Just Hair: Thinking About Shiva’s Dreadlocks and Black Bodily Integrity
1+ day, 4+ hour ago —...I imagined: “It’s either Quincy or us,” not “It’s either Quincy’s... ...He is Shiva. And he has dreads.... ...In Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America Ayana... ...Cobb writes in New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair...
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Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write
1+ day, 4+ hour ago —...Hosted by Brooke Warner of She Writes and Grant Faulkner of National... ...Island Stories and What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez.... ...Studies at the University of South Carolina.... ...She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and her PhD in...