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Lit Hub Daily
February 8, 2021

TODAY: In 1998, Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature, Halldór Laxness, dies.
TODAY: In 1998, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature, Halldór Laxness, dies.
Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright
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Ben Okri talks to Mitzi Rapkin about the strange magic of
our preoccupations
, on First Draft. 
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What should Joe Biden do about policing? Alex S. Vitale discusses, on Keen On. 
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“I really do believe that fiction should say more than one thing...” Chigozie Obiama in conversation with Jacke Wilson, on The History of Literature. 
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On The Quarantine Tapes, Steven Donziger talks about the Chevron-instigated
oil crisis happening in Ecuador
.
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Listen to Kalyanee Mam’s narrated essay about fleeing the Cambodian genocide for a different kind of erasure in America, on Emergence Magazine. 
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