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Lit Hub Weekly
July 13 - 17, 2020
TODAY: In 1899, Horatio Alger, writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty, dies.
TODAY: In 1899, Horatio Alger, writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty, dies.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Sofia Perez travels through Spain as it grapples with its Fascist past • Estelle Laure reminds us what it's like to be a young reader attracted to the darkest possible stories • Joshua Bennett on the use of animals in the work of Black writers • Leila Slimani on sex and an ethics of women’s liberation in Morocco • Alane Mason remembers the quiet genius of her friend, Brad Watson • Genie Lauren on the rise of Black Twitter, and the social power (and limits) of hashtag activism • Sarah Gerard on falling in love, on and off the page • A reading list on the complexities and joys of adult female friendship • Can the German path to truth and reconciliation work in America? • Melissa Valentine on the school-to-prison pipeline, and being unable to protect those you love • Jeffrey Einboden on Thomas Jefferson and the little-known presence of enslaved Muslims in the US • Suzanne Nossel: has free speech become an even more partisan issue under the Trump administration? • Kelli Jo Ford recommends books that helped her find a way home while writing Crooked Hallelujah • The case for Jaws as the perfect (endlessly symbolic) summer movie • Tobias Carroll on Springsteen, Houellebecq, and the complicated business of bridging ideologies • Tahar Ben Jelloun on his political imprisonment in Morocco, and the danger of silence under dictatorship
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The Black Swan of Paris by Karen Robards
Size Zero by Abigail Mangin
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Renata Adler's Speedboat, Mary Gaitskill's The Mare, C. E. Morgan's The Sport of Kings, and more rapid-fire book recs from Costalegre author Courtney Maum • "The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale": F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise at 100 • Art as Pure Villain: On Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea • David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue, Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough, and Leila Slimani’s Sex and Lies all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg on the most corrupt police squad in the nation • Sung J. Woo on learning to write noir from the classics • Anna Downes looks at the evolution of homes in thrillers • Charles Finch on the exhilarating, dangerous world of Helen Eustis • July is a banner month for new true crime books • Michael Gonzales on the unexpected bonding powers of Billy Joel’s melancholy noir • Zach Vasquez takes a look at the Cohen Brothers’ enduring ties to crime literature • J. Kingston Pierce recalls how America once fell in love with mystery wheels • Paul French on seven of the best international true crime podcasts  • Lisa Levy recommends five psychological thrillers you should read this July
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Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2020

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Lit Hub Daily July 17, 2020 TODAY: In 1917, French feminist writer Christiane Rochefort is born. TODAY: In 1917, French feminist writer Christiane Rochefort is born. Kelli Jo Ford shares the books that

Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2020

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Lit Hub Daily July 16, 2020 TODAY: In 1546, writer, poet, and Protestant martyr Anne Askew dies. TODAY: In 1546, writer, poet, and Protestant martyr Anne Askew dies. “You rise in pieces, loved to death

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Lit Hub Daily July 15, 2020 TODAY: In 1779, Clement Clarke Moore, author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," is born. At first Moore had not wished to be connected with the

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Lit Hub Daily July 14, 2020 TODAY: In 1898, Eliza Lynn Linton, the first female salaried journalist in Britain, dies. TODAY: In 1898, Eliza Lynn Linton, the first salaried woman journalist in Britain,

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Lit Hub Daily July 13, 2020 TODAY: In 1914, DH Lawrence weds Frieda Weekley. TODAY: In 1914, DH Lawrence weds Frieda Weekley. “History is not written just by acts of war and feats of conquest, nor

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