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Lit Hub Weekly
October 26 - 30, 2020
TODAY: In 2004, French publisher Denoël publishes Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française, consisting of two novellas written and set in 1940–1941, from a sequence left unfinished on the author's death in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
TODAY: In 2004, French publisher Denoël publishes Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française, consisting of two novellas written and set in 1940–1941, from a sequence left unfinished on the author's death in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
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Michiko Kakutani on why we love books • Shirley Jackson, soothing as ever, in a letter to a young reader • Talking to Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris about The Lost Spells • 50 of the best apocalypse novels ever written • Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, calling it like they see it • Fran Lebowitz on the glamorous worlds of Camilla McGrath • On Sylvia Plath’s creative breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony • Life advice from a mythic Slavic witch? • Emily Van Duyne considers a monumental new biography of the Sylvia Plath • Duncan Wu on the poetic appeal of our very best friends: dogs • Sonya Bilocerkowycz on what it’s like to jaywalk in a dictatorship • Madelaine Lucas on rituals of home and return in Marilynne Robinson • Paola Ramos profiles the work of young environmental justice activists • Mark Polizzoti on Patrick Modiano's literary career • Scott James recommends five books to help us understand the rise of Trump that have nothing to do with Trump • Tommy Orange on vulnerability, and familial love • When a Marilyn Monroe met Richard Avedon • Peter Mishler talks to the poet Pamela Sneed • What we still don’t know about the Cuban missile crisis • Kate Bernheimer on the melancholy at the heart of a beloved children’s classic • On the 19th-century food writer who embraced gluttony as a virtue • Inside the spare and extravagant homes of six iconic writers • Riding in cars with John Ashbery • We could all use a Leonard Woolf right about now • Christina Baker Kline and Bonnie Friedman in conversation about a classic of literary craft, Writing Past Dark • Monica Youn, poet and frontline defender of democracy • Lily Wachowski on confronting fascism at the ballot box… and in the streets • Tyler Malone explores the dark, cinematic world of eco-horror • Myléne Dressler on what ghost stories mean in 2020 • A brief history of bones • Somebody had to do it: 50 Draculas, ranked
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Four Writers on Election 2020 | Pen America
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Serpentine by Philip Pullman
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Indie booksellers from around the country rave about their favorite reads • 10 terrifying 21st century novels for Halloween • A classic review of Dracula • Sarah Shun-lien Bynum on William Faulkner's transporting language and Mary Gaitskill's greatest sex scene • Scott James recommends five books to help us understand the rise of Trump that have nothing to do with Trump, from A Civil Action to Where the Crawdads Sing • Max Seeck on Animal Farm, A Little Life, and hating The Master and Margarita • Joshua Ferris on Jess Walter, Ron Charles on Bryan Washington, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week • Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, David Attenborough, and Sutton Foster lend their voices to some of October's best audiobooks • New titles from Jess Walter, Bryan Washington, Martin Amis, and Evan Osnos all feature among the best reviewed books of the week 
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NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Max Seeck explores the most haunting settings in crime fiction • Stephen Spotswood with a crime lover’s guide to classic radio mysteries  • Travel the world from home with these international crime novels out in October • Western noir: an unlikely combination, but it works. Nick Kolakowski explains why • My First Thriller: Rick Pullen interviews Scott Turow • Elizabeth Hand on outsiders, punks, and subcultures, interviewed by Lisa Levy • Olivia Rutigliano celebrates Arsenic and Old Lace as a perfect Halloween film  • Nicci French on the pantheon of prison fiction • Evie Green looks at 7 novels featuring imaginary friends • 9 fictional haunted houses that aren’t actually houses, from Matthew Lyons
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Lit Hub Daily: October 30, 2020

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