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“These men are not merely passively ‘compromised’ but aggressively compromising, in ways that our misogynistic culture obscures.” Mary K. Holland considers David Foster Wallace scholarship after #MeToo. | Lit Hub
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Francine Prose on encountering literary works that made her think, Writers can do that? | Lit Hub Criticism
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“If I’d written a personal essay about my financial situation, I could have qualified for a scholarship to my own conference.” Leigh Stein on life as a working writer and the challenges of forming an alternative to AWP. | Lit Hub
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A decade after Egypt’s Tahrir Square erupted in protest, Talya Zax asks how the Arab Spring changed fiction. | Lit Hub Politics
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“Writing is a lot easier than getting up onstage and singing and dancing, I’ll tell you that.” Mel Brooks discusses becoming a memoirist at 95. | The New Yorker
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These Indigenous horror authors are using speculative fiction to revitalize traditional stories. | Bitch Media
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“I wanted to set it in the bookstore because I felt like that’s a kind of haunted space, by definition.” Louise Erdrich on her new novel and our country’s unease with its genocidal origins. | NPR Code Switch
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How historically accurate is the Old Testament? | Smithsonian Magazine
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“What should my generation of activists preserve from earlier stages of the movement, and what should we discard?” Megan Stephan on feminist memoirs. | Public Books
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Sara Harowitz considers the weight of a name. | Hazlitt
Also on Lit Hub: Mark Scarbrough on finally finding an authentic voice • Mirion Malle in conversation with Sophie Yanow • Read from Mona Arshi’s hybrid novel, Somebody Loves You
