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TODAY: In 1909, Nelson Algren, who won the National Book Award for his novel The Man with the Golden Arm, is born.
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- New on the Lit Hub Podcast: The Windham-Campbell Prizes and new literary tabloid. | Lit Hub Radio
- “Our cruelty and incompetence isn’t terribly new, but Trump’s naked desire for punishment and Northern conquest is different.” James Folta revisits House of Anansi Press’ classic guide to immigrating. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I could sense the freedom, yet I didn’t dare to march towards it.” Sulaiman Addonia on writing in the footsteps of Pina Bausch. | Lit Hub Craft
- Books by Maggie Nelson, Julia Alvarez, Claire Lombardo, and more are among the 25 titles out in paperback this April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story, Karen Russell’s The Antidote, Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance, and David Sheff’s Yoko all feature among March’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- What should you watch in April? Maybe try the literary film and television coming to a streaming service near you. | Lit Hub Film
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share the audiobooks they’re most anticipating in April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Do you hear something?” Read from Eliza Kennedy’s novel, Lucky Night. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Kafka’s self-portrait is unimaginative, lifeless. Did he feel this about himself or was it poor artistry. How strange claiming that anything Kafka is not special.” Lynne Tillman takes a closer look at Kafka’s sketch of himself and his mother. | The Yale Review
- Read a new poem by Fady Joudah. | The Baffler
- “There is zero excuse to allow people to die the same way today that they have for 9,000 years. And yet, no matter how hard we row the boat, we can’t escape the past.” Tony Ho Tran on John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis. | Slate
- Bartolomeo Sala considers the relationship between farming and the earth in contemporary fiction and cinema. | The Dial
- “It’s useful to see The Aesthetics of Resistance as the literary equivalent of the films of Jean-Luc Godard.” Mitchell Abidor on dissidence and Peter Weiss’s three part novel. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Tom Shapira meditates on owning multiple editions of Tintin in America. | The Comics Journal
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