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July 17, 2025

TODAY: In 1911, Chinese playwright, author, and translator Yang Jiang is born.

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Anika Burgess explores daguerreotypes, darkrooms, and the 19th century inventions that made photography possible. | Lit Hub Technology

Ben Brooks recommends books featuring characters who redistribute their wealth by Dave Eggers, Neel Mukherjee, Ann Napolitano and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Ocean Vuong's new novel "treats its characters like hogs to the slaughter." 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

“Like liberty, patriotism required a fire to sustain it. But fire needs fuel, and this is what the revolutionary creatives provided.” On the artists who joined the fight for American independence. | Lit Hub History

“Every time I woke up, someone died. Usually my girlfriend, Lavender, or my dad, or my boss.” Read from Kerry Cullen's new novel, House of Beth. | Lit Hub Fiction

NEW BOOKS FROM GRAYWOLF PRESS

Check out new releases from Graywolf Press, including Trying by Chloe Caldwell, Charlottesville by Deborah Baker, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkeness by Irene Solà, and more.

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THINK. ADVENTURE. CREATE.

Join award-winning writers Glynnis MacNicol and Susanna Schrobsdorff for a transformative nonfiction workshop in Paris.

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Lydia Aikenhead on the idea that “a book contains, represents, or allows access to a physical space.” | The Met

Peter Milne Greiner revisits Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy, The Annals of the Western Shore. | Reactor

Vinson Cunningham close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials. | The New Yorker

“Cellblocks full of people who killed or hurt or robbed are watching real-life murders, kidnappings and robberies for entertainment.” John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison. | The New York Times Magazine

André Naffis-Sahely considers Yannis Ritsos’s poetry of Greekness. | Poetry

The WIT Literary Festival has announced its 2025 lineup, including conversations with Hanif Abdurraqi, Torrey Peters, and more. | The Author’s Guild

THE LONG-AWAITED COLLECTION FOR BOTH MEN AND NORMAL READERS, IT'S...

Definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that?

“Outrageously funny.” –Paul Harding

“Irresistible.” –Andrea Lawlor

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