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TODAY: Writer Jenny Diski was born in 1947.
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Andrew Keane asks if there is a model of political change in 21st century America. | Lit Hub Politics
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“You have to remove the value from within yourself, that vision of himself as a great and important author, before you can write freely in your own voice.” Michael Bourne on murder everything your loved ones | Lit Hub Craft
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Excavating the History of Mars by counting its craters. | Lit Hub Cosmos!
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“Ask yourself if this was the year the most difficult school year that teachers have ever faced, or was it last year? Or 2020?” How to close the school library for the summer holidays (in 2022). | Lit Hub
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13 indie booksellers what to read this summer. | Lit Hub
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Reflections further Jane Eyre, Criminal Mothers and Victorian Childhood. | Lit Hub
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Rachel Caro on equally difficult translation tasks the “obviously literary” Roger Lewinter and the “unfussy” Colette. | Lit Hub About the translation
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Sopan Deb recommends written advice received from improv. | Lit Hub Craft
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Morgan Talty Night of the Living DeadRon Shelton Baseball churchand Gabriel Zevin Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow all features among Best reviewed books of the week. | Book marks
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L. Blanchard p five books set in speculative worlds. | CrimeReads
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Lydia Millet on discovering the novel Rocky Horror as a child: “Even now, whenever Tim Curry appears in some small role in a new movie, I can’t help but wish I could give him back that thick, extravagant make-up.” | Millions
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“Every trans woman I’ve ever met is an artist of her own life.” Mackenzie Wark on writing trans stories. | Nation
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Sterling Cunio narrates the process of writing and staging a play while incarcerated. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Tobias Carroll recommends new books in translations from Kazakhstan, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Sweden and Cameroon. | Words without borders
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Tim Parks reckons work of the translator after the death of the author. | NYRB
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“The explosion is one way to think about what might happen to books. Another is contagion. But I often think of it in other terms: as a composting process.’ Elvia Wilk on the dangers of the world structure. | n+1
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Michelle Saunders narrates summer with James Baldwin in the south of France. | Document
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