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- Ariel Dorfman reflects on his friend Gabriel García Márquez’s legacy and the Netflix adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude. | Lit Hub Film
- Luis Schwarcz on what it means to be a publisher: “We are also the first people responsible for the integrity of a book.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “It has just about always been the job of the author to help sell the book long after they’ve finished the job of writing it.” Maris Kreizman’s advice (to herself) on self-promotion. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Andy Corren revisits a childhood of poverty, paperbacks, and poetry while remembering Renay, his unforgettable mother. | Lit Hub Humor
- “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom; instead, it meant there were strict rules to follow.” Lee Hawkins on growing up as a Black boy in suburban America. | Lit Hub Memoir
- On Aria Aber’s TBR list, including books by Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “For twenty-six years and five months, Olney Kartheizer worked as a staff writer and copy editor at the Anastasia, Florida, Daily Sun.” Read from John Dufresne’s novel, My Darling Boy. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On remembering Pasolini for his literature as much as his films. | The Point
- “Much of the history of the Southwest has been defined by pushing past the limits that the desert set.” Zachariah Webb talks to Kyle Paoletta about his new book, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest. | The Baffler
- Catherine Lacey considers the early stages of learning a new language. | The Paris Review
- Jessie Kindig meditates on the nature of objects. | Orion
- “Oh, he’s not as fine a lecturer as William James? Go cry about it, you big baby.” Patricia Lockwood on mysticism. | London Review of Books
- Melville House is aiming to get a paperback version of Jack Smith’s report on Trump into bookstores “shortly after” the inauguration next week. | Publishers Weekly
