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This week on The Lit Hub Podcast: How the publishing world can respond to Trump, and “What energizes you?” | Lit Hub Radio

“When in doubt, leave the reaction out.” Eric Puchner on how to be funny when writing a novel. | Lit Hub Craft

THE LATEST FROM THE HUB: On the willful cruelty of Trump’s capital punishment order • Amazon is stripping away your ability download your own ebooks • Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art” is essential reading for writers. 

Ted Hamm on how Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes each reacted to the assassination of Malcolm X. | Lit Hub History

Susan Morrison’s Lorne, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, and Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks

Neel Mukherjee talks to Eli Zuzovsky about film, selfhood, and being an Israeli writer today. | Lit Hub In Conversation

How Little Richard brought Black and queer culture to American music: “Like the whole record, they represent a sophisticated synthesis of Black music past and present, a history and a tradition that Richard had lived.” | Lit Hub Music

“Every month, money drips / into my retirement account. You think the world / will still be around when you’re sixty-five?” Read “Information Worker at the End of the World,” a poem by Stephanie Niu from the collection I Would Define the Sun. | Lit Hub Poetry

“He’d started out in Paris, then on to Zurich and Prague, cities still vital and unblemished in their appearance; then Frankfurt, Munich, his native Berlin, Vienna, and points east, which were ashes.” Read from Steve Stern’s novel, A Fool’s Kabbalah. | Lit Hub Fiction

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“His underlying point that no serious ideological competitor to liberal democracy would emerge stands strong.” Michael A. Cohen revisits Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History. | The New Republic

How watching horror movies way too young hooked Susan Barker on the supernatural (and “had some warping influence on [her] growing mind”). | The Guardian

Diane Ravitch on the destructive power of “school choice.” | New York Review of Books

Kasia Bartoszyńska makes the case for literary criticism. | The Point

On Eduardo Torres and Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence. | The Baffler

J. Urquidi and Marcus Clayton discuss literature at the intersection of punk and academia. | Los Angeles Review of Books

From the author of The Echo of Old Books, Barbara Davis, comes a powerful novel of a mother and daughter trying to reconcile their relationship. To find closure with the past, Mallory Ward returns home—to her mother’s secrets—and finds that trust is hard to repair.

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