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• Eric Olson profiles Patricia Lockwood, the “rare popular author unbounded by both trend and decorum.” | Lit Hub Craft
• Can’t decide which fall book to read? This flowchart has you covered. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Frances Wilson traces the similarities between Muriel Spark’s favorite teacher and her most famous protagonist. | Lit Hub Biography
• The 24 new books out today include titles by Patricia Lockwood, Ian McEwan, Mona Awad, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• How Bartolomé de las Casas bore witness to the violent conquest of the Americas, from Greg Grandin’s Cundill Prize-shortlisted America, América. | Lit Hub History
• “She made me feel that my ideas mattered. She took me seriously.” Marisa Silver examines the legacy of her mother, Joan Micklin Silver, frame by frame. | Lit Hub Film
• Read “Distinguished Office of Echoes,” a poem by Lisa Olstein from the collection Distinguished Office of Echoes. | Lit Hub Poetry
• “At the beginning of each little chapter you walk through a doorway. There is the detail of a coffee cup, a mirror, a pear. You must raise the hand to hold, the face to look, the mouth to drink.” Read from Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Dan Kois and Rebecca Onion—along with “more than a hundred authors, illustrators, librarians, booksellers, academics, and publishing pros”—select the 25 best children’s books of the last 25 years. | Slate
• “Sometime during 2018 or 2019, my YouTube algorithm started giving me videos from the Ayn Rand Institute.” Jordan Castro on reading like Ayn Rand (but not reading Ayn Rand). | The Paris Review
• On Michel Houellebecq and “the tension between immersion and performance.” | The Point
• Zach Rabiroff interviews comics retail pioneer Bud Plant: “I think we opened the store mostly just to get more comics. We weren’t really trying to make a living or anything out of it.” | The Comics Journal
• Judith Tarr challenges what we mean when we call creatures in science fiction “aliens.” | Reactor
• Caitlin Welsh profiles Chuck Tingle, the internet’s favorite buckaroo. | The Guardian

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