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Lit Hub Weekly: March 10 – 14, 2025

TODAY: In 1852, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist, founder of the Irish Literary Revival movement, is born. 

Also on Lit Hub:

Catch up with our Best Villains in Literature bracket! • Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay DyingOn Hayao Miyazaki’s radical depictions of childhood • The 19th-century historians who relativized the violent legacy of slavery • On biographers who struggle to find primary sources • Soccer and the legacy of the Hillsborough disasterHow Alanis Morissette gave a voice to her fans’s struggles • What it means to write like a girl • Authors answer our burning literary questions • Karen Russell on receiving a hotel ice bucket as a courtship gift • Bryan Charles on sharing a name with another authorThe origins of an iconic American invention • “What injustices and possibilities are laid bare” in the wake of a natural disaster • Sloane Crosley on the art of saying “no” • On rewriting a novel after a decade of distanceBooks for understanding African folklore •  Will Rees on Franz Kafka’s health anxiety •  Read two (very mean!) poems by Dorothy ParkerThe practical and ethical ramifications of AI weapons • Where is the moral courage in the American media?Why people fear IRL dystopia but love dystopian fiction • The moody uncanniness of Shirley Jackson’s stories5 book reviews you need to read this week • Check out Mónica de la Torre’s TBR •  Read “Robert Creeley,” a poem by Ron Padgett • The White Lotus props master Michael Cory on how he picks books for the show • Today on the Lit Hub Podcast • Torrey Peters on why she’d build saunas if she wasn’t a writer • The utopian dreams of early 20th-century occultists • Alice Austen on writing character like an actor • The best reviewed books of the week • Books on migration that experiment with point of view • How Annie Besant foresaw that reproductive rights were worth fighting for • The origins and lasting impact of the Vietnam War

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