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- Meet the Writers on the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist, including David Grann, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tiya Miles, John Vaillant and more. | Lit Hub
- “I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy.” Pauls Toutonghi on finding purpose in creativity. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I asked myself why me? Why? Why? A cosmic loneliness was my shadow… It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.” Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s exquisite loneliness. | Lit Hub
- “She has become my Mary.” Anne Eekhout on fictionalizing Mary Shelley. | Lit Hub Craft
- Mina Honey on writing about sex in memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
- The shortlists for the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction and the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction have been revealed. | Guardian
- A conversation with Hélène Cixous on writing as a woman, the meaning of Jewishness, and the impossibility of understanding. | Jewish Currents
- “It was fate that I translated this book.” Interviews with all the finalists – writers and translators – for the National Book Award in Translation. | Words Without Borders
- “On A Clear Day,” a new poem by Victoria Chang. | The Atlantic
- Chef Evan Hanczor and conductor Will Curry on their favorite branches of New York City libraries | WSJ
