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“It’s harder for me to talk about them.” J.C. Gabel talks to Percival Everett about his paintings. | Lit Hub Art
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Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett discuss co-writing their new novel, Trust & Safety: “Starting with a blank page is part of what makes writing a book so vulnerable.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
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“A ragged, blood-soaked handkerchief” and more chilling details: On the Lizzie Borden trial, as told in a newspaper of the time by journalist and suffragist Elizabeth Garver Jordan. | Lit Hub History
- “Objects were made to live multiple lives, so that our life—this life, not the next one—would be perfect.” Simon Wu on space, scarcity, and the production of diasporic aesthetics. | Lit Hub Memoir
- If you like dragon heists and chose your own adventures, July’s new sci-fi and fantasy novels are for you. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Dorinda Wegener on the similarities between being a nurse and being a poet: “I must enter the poem’s body through my own corporealness.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections by Marianne Chan, Nicole Cooley, Alan Felsenthal, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Elsa reached for her phone, using her thumbprint to unlock it.” Read from Madison Newbound’s new novel, Misrecognition. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “To question the possibility of female art is, ultimately, to question the possibility of female thought. In both cases, one wonders how hard Cusk is really looking.” Andrea Long Chu on Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism. | Vulture
- Hollywood is getting into book publishing. | Inverse
- Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher talk to Emily Nussbaum about reality TV. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Combining linear rigidity and spatial abstraction, in Martin’s works I saw an idea of the world that is guided by plans and sure outcomes—a world made whole again.” On Agnes Martin and grief. | The Paris Review
- From Adrienne Rich to Jennifer C. Nash: A reading list on American motherhood. | JSTOR Daily
- “The idea of artistic indulgence emerges, fundamentally, from the overlap between the social and the economical…” On the discovery and publication of forgotten comics by Frank Johnson. | The Comics Journal
