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TODAY: In 1847, Brazilian abolitionist poet Castro Alves is born.
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What the critics have to say about this year’s 30 NBCC Award finalists (spoiler alert: all good things). | Lit Hub
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“Book cataloguing is less an art, not really a science, and more of a completely unstandardized, decentralized carnival fire.” Oliver Darkshire on the rare book trade. | Lit Hub
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Happy pub week to these 16 new books. | The Hub
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad looks behind the curtain of post-Saddam Iraq. | Lit Hub
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This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Roxanna Asgarian, Jaroslav Kalfař, Victor LaValle, Szilvia Molnar, and Cecile Pin. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
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Deborah Treisman talks to Jennifer Egan about her current book projects, playing with structure and voice, her writing group, and more. | The New Yorker
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The Toni Morrison stamp is finally here! | CNN
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Sara Youngblood Gregory looks at femininity and gender roles in post-apocalypse narratives, from The Last of Us to Octavia Butler. | Cosmopolitan
Also on Lit Hub: Elizabeth McKenzie on writing about her geologist mother • Cathleen Schine on finding a charming narrator in a self-conscious age • Read Mieko Kawakami’s short story “The Tongue” (tr. Hitomi Yoshio) from the new issue of Freeman’s
