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A fantasy final? The last round of voting is here! Only two films remain in our Best Literary Adaptations bracket, and it’s up to you to choose a winner. | Lit Hub
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff investigate how (and when) Elon Musk took his hard turn to the right. | Lit Hub Politics
“The homes of Schomburg, Dorsey, and other collectors were important sites of Black intellectual culture: salon-like spaces for the bookish crowd. Until now, however, it has been hard to picture them.” How Arturo Schomburg built a library and made history. | Lit Hub History
“In these moments, I am reduced to this fact: Someone broke into your house and attacked you.” On healing after trauma through writing. | Lit Hub Craft
“She seemed to go to extremes in order to make the play as obscene and immoral as possible.” This week in literary history, Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity. | Lit Hub History
“It was your idea, and if you didn’t want to get your feet wet, love, you shouldn’t have embarked.” Read from Vincent Delecroix’s novel Small Boat, translated by Helen Stevenson. | Lit Hub Fiction
DEAR MONICA LEWINSKY IS A MUST-READ!
From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
Muldoon’s Picnic is back: a raucous variety show where poetry, music, and conversation come together for a literary salon, just in time for National Poetry Month.
How language produces the soul: “How does the mind come into existence because of the brain? How does the great wealth of conscious experience emerge from the poverty of the electrical activity of nerve cells?” | Aeon
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