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Finding unexpected inspiration while writing from Ted Hughes’s childhood home: “The second of these questions depicts Ted Hughes as a ghost, a lost spirit looking back to his childhood, still seeking.” | Lit hub Craft
Maris Kreizman wants you to know that you don’t need to buy a Kindle. | Lit Hub Technology
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
“You can love Gwendoline Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Why writing a novel and hiking up a mountain are basically the same thing. | Lit Hub Craft
Laurel Taylor meditates on different forms of family and translating Maiko Seo’s Someone to Cook For. | Lit Hub On Translation
“Once upon a time, but not so long ago, there was a woman who disobeyed her father by loving another man.” Read from A. Igoni Barrett’s new novel, Whyteface. | Lit Hub Fiction
Plato once argued that literacy would fill people “with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.” Michael Marinaccio makes the case that AI has done just that. | Hedgehog Review
Asya Sağnak examines the queer truth of noir fiction. | Lux
Zhang Er reflects on reading banned books as a child during China’s Cultural Revolution. | China Books Review
To understand what makes a literary adaptation good, we need to dive deep into the history of cinema. | The New Yorker
Gita Jackson considers art, death, and writing a novel to Charli XCX’s Lollapalooza set. | Aftermath
Tate McFadden looks back on Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol, “an improbable piece of comics history.” | The Comics Journal
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