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Lit Hub Weekly
December 21 - 23, 2020
TODAY: In 1894, poet and novelist Jean Toomer is born.
TODAY: In 1894, poet and novelist Jean Toomer is born.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Here are the ten biggest literary stories of 2020 • Rick Bass on our deep winter solstice dreams and the spring to come • Sara B. Franklin on the best kids’ reads of this pandemic year • Freeman’s contributors weigh in on their favorite reads of the year • Alice Bohling on the revolutionary potential of mutual aid • Kelly Conaboy on the intuition-based work of the animal communicator • How the tweeness of e.e. cummings’s “little treat” manages to transcend holiday kitsch • Lorna Dee Cervantes on the interplay between Beat and Chicano poetry • Nick Offerman really loves Wendell Berry • Todd Gitlin on the defeat of Donald Trump • Hard to imagine Mary McCarthy’s The Group was dismissed as a “lady-writer’s novel.” And yet • Deborah Tannen on finding her father through his relationship with Judaism • On the rookie year of a baseball legend • You could certainly do worse than being stuck with Shakespeare during a plague • Want a little Kropotkin in your YA? On the rise of literary theory in American academia • Dear readers, thank you for spending some of this bizarre and terrible year with us: here are the ten stories you read the most and here are our favorite Lit Hub stories of 2020
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THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
23 independent booksellers rave about their favorite reads in the Art of the Hand-Sell • Break out the burn cream because it's time to unleash the most scathing book reviews of 2020 • A month of literary listening: AudioFile's best audiobooks of December • Katherine May recommends five books about wintering, from Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica to Toni Morrison's Beloved • Heather Cleary brings us some tantalizing literature in translation recs for 2021
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Mystery author Jacqueline Winspear remembers a wholesome holiday crime • The best international crime fiction of 2020 • "Crime and the City" visits Cape Town, South Africa's hub of urban cool • Olivia Rutigliano on a ghostly Christmas tradition • Here are our choices for the year's best crime and mystery criticism • Molly Odintz surveys the best historical crime fiction of 2020 • Stephanie Graves honors the wartime heroism of the humble homing pigeon • Curtis Evans looks at Something for Everyone, a cult classic of queer mystery cinema • Sharon Doering on the unnervingly universal potential for violence • Counting down the most iconic Christmas-set crime cinema
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