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- “Unlike earlier periods of widespread immiseration, such as the recession of 2008, what we’re seeing today is an emergency born less of poverty than prosperity.” Brian Goldstone explores why so many working Americans are unhoused. | Lit Hub Politics
- Caroline Carlson rounds up 10 great new children’s books out in April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Steve Oney recounts the episode that changed NPR’s This American Life forever: “Let me tell you a story.” | Lit Hub History
- Christopher Spaide recommends new poetry collections by Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The particular attention paid by the university presses to the breadth of contemporary poetry, and their general commitment to the book itself as art form and as a necessary and valuable artifact, seem essential.” Six poets explain why university presses are so critical for poetry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- April’s best sci-fi and fantasy books include new sagas and standalones from Olivie Blake, Nghi Vo, Isaac Fellman, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I always hated ‘realistic’ fiction.” Read from Anton Solomonik’s story collection, Realistic Fiction. | Lit Hub Fiction
- A lost piece of the story of Merlin and Arthur has been found at Cambridge. | Reactor
- “I am writing this to rebuke good behavior. I am writing this to rebuke the algorithm.” Kaveh Akbar on the necessity of action to protect the vulnerable. | The Nation
- Lincoln Michel considers what we write about when we write about writers. | Counter Craft
- A.O. Scott explores the many lives of The Great Gatsby. | The New York Times
- “Most of them are living in tents.” How reporters investigate the killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists. | The Intercept
- Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about her novel, Soft Core: “Right now—understandably—there’s heavy emphasis in the literary world on authenticity and writing from a place of ‘lived experience.’” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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