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10 Books On Ecstatically Mad Women
When I was 22, I developed an eating disorder, an experience equal parts horror and euphoria that took me outside of myself, turning me into someone I wasn’t, or perhaps revealing a part of me that had...
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13 Writers Who Grew to Hate Their Own Books
If you know any writers, you may know that almost everyone hates their own book at some point. Usually it’s between draft 13 and draft 37, when there’s no end in sight, and they’re questioning...
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15 Novels That Subvert Traditional Gender Roles
This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of Gore Vidal’s boundary-breaking novel Myra Breckinridge, which in a contemporary review, the New York Times called “a genuinely, brutally witty book, a parody...
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47 of Your Favorite Writers on Their Favorite Poems
It’s April, which according to Wikipedia, is Financial Literacy Month. It is also Jazz Appreciation Month, Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, National Volunteer Month, Arab American Heritage...
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Wuthering Heights is a Virgin’s Story, and Other Opinions of Brontë’s Classic
Two hundred years ago today, Emily Brontë was born. She died only 30 years later, of tuberculosis. Her coffin was only 16 inches wide (though this may not mean what we think it means). She wrote one...
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Reading Women‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019, Part 2
Kendra and Autumn, with special guest Lupita of @Lupita.Reads, talk about their most anticipated reads for the second half of 2019! * The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio, July 16th)...
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Here’s the 2019 Booker Prize longlist (with almost no Americans, for a change).
Today, the (newly-Man-less) Booker Prizes announced the longlist for this year’s award, one of the most prestigious in the world. Of the 13 books that make up the “Booker Dozen,” as the longlist is...
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The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels
The end of summer is traditional coming of age time. Your new best friend is going home. Your new boyfriend starts pretending not to know you. Your parents discover your secret hiding place and turn it...
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Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a...
With one eye on our inevitable techno-future, Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell had a conversation over Google Docs about Mary Shelley, transhumanism, AI, and the human dream to transcend humanity....
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8 brand new books you should pick up this week.
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones we’ll...
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Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Fiction Award
In this episode Reading Women digs into the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlist for Fiction. The co-hosts are Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett. From the episode: Kendra: This is the third episode in...
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Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University
I am the first person in my family to go to university. I decided to study literature because reading gave me a hot, dense feeling that tore the lid from my world and let the light rush in. During my...
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The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
About a month ago, we published a list of 50 of the best contemporary novels over 500 pages, for those of you who suddenly have a lot of extra time on your hands. But for those of us who suddenly have...
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22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition
As a trans person, I spent most of my life with my head in a book imagining other lives, other bodies, and other histories. In some ways, my memoir is an amalgamation of all the books that kept me...
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An ode to the first Internet novel.
Since you’re on here, you know that it is the month of the Internet novel. Two heavy-hitters in particular—Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking about This—have been...
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On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction
We spend our day-to-day lives trying to keep up the charade of being acceptable human beings. We have come to tolerate the estranged family of words that are housed under the collective term of mental...
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Jeanette Winterson on How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live...
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right...
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18 new books to get you excited about reading again.
If you’re in a reading rut, fear not! There are some glorious books coming into the world today, guaranteed to get you back in the groove of things. We’ve got life wisdom from Nick Offerman and Sutton...
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“More Life Into a Time Without Boundaries.” Jeanette Winterson Considers the...
In 2009—four years after it was published—I read Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. It is an optimistic view of the future—a future that depends on computational technology. A future of...
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Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life
Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. _______________ Dear...
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