TODAY: In 1916, Italian novelist and short story writer Natalia Ginzburg (who also secretly edited an anti-fascist newspaper during World War II) is born.
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Deborah Williams on finding hope in the stories of Zona Gale: “Gale’s stories imagine an anti-capitalist vision of ‘sodality’ that could extend across the world, if only women were in charge.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“The city was the color of oxidized blood. She was standing before the sliding doors, which opened and closed, closed and opened.” Read from Kyung-ran Jo’s novel Blowfish, translated by Chi-Young Kim. | Lit Hub Fiction
GARY SHTEYNGART IS BACK!
A poignant, bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart—told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter.
Why, when it comes to writing, flow is only the beginning: “If you’re a professional writer, then writing should be easier for you, right? But creativity research shows that successful creativity is effortful.”| The MIT Press Reader
Gabriel N. Rosenberg talks to Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, about the question of timeless species. | Public Books
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