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TODAY: In 1814, Francis Scott Key, an American lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the play The Star Spangled Banner.
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Olivia Rutiliano on the legacy of the legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (who didn’t like e-books before they were invented). | Lit Hub The movie
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Chinela Okparenta credits William Styron Confessions of Nat Turner and the ethics of writing through racial identities. | Lit Hub Criticism
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43 literary films and series to watch this fall—Relatives! Women talk! White noise! And… Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. | Lit Hub Cinema and TV
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“They wanted to romanticize the whole world.” how a group of young writers and poets made a revolution in the literature of the 18th century. | Lit Hub History
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Inspired and Furious: Peniel E. Joseph on learning black history all his life. | Lit Hub Memoirs
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Sally Koslav recommends five (fictional) dysfunctional families in all their chaotic glory. | Lit Hub Reading lists
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Pitch, Hook, Discipline: Suggested by Tracy Lien journalistic tricks and techniques for fiction writers. | Lit Hub Craft
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“I’ve never taken LSD, but I stared at Faith Ringgold’s ‘Die’ and felt something like a pharmaceutical meltdown.” Please provide more language to talk about visual art (and artists). | Lit Hub art
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What healing rituals in different cultures tell about the human condition. | Lit Hub
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How to get away with murder… in the Regency era. | CrimeReads
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“We have to challenge each other.” Narrated by Alex Breland creating a book club and discussion space for black people. | The Chicago Tribune
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Patrick Kern, owner of LGBTQ+ bookstore Little District Books, on adapting “to the customer and how the community changes over time.” | TO YOU
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“The deaths in these books are intoxicating because they are never final.” Leslie Jamieson on the continuing appeal of Choose Your Own Adventure books.. | The New Yorker
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Darren Byler, translator of the Uyghur-language novel The Backstreets, reflects on his collaboration and friendship with the super tax collector, who is believed to be in a re-education camp in Xinjiang. | Words without borders
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“The mysteries that grab your attention are always changing, and while you’re not looking, they turn into something completely different.” Dwyer Murphy on New York Noir, Cinematic Influences, and Humor in Crime Fiction. | LARB
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Andrew Sean Greer next his Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel writing, and his incontinent pug. | The New York Times
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Including writers Together with Ukrainian authors, Abdulrazak Gurna and Margaret Atwood will speak at the Lviv BookForum, streaming next month to a screen near you. | Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Recommended by Sylvie Bigard five major food memoirs • New poetry Eliza Gabbert • Read a story from Barbara Molinar’s recently translated collection, Panic (tr. Emma Ramadan)
