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Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

The Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2025

Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

Kathy Wang: “There are certain books where...the pleasure there isn’t really the ending but rather the journey.”

By Kathy Wang | July 14, 2025

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

Angela Baggetta on What She’s Learned From Rereading Old Favorites

By Angela Baggetta | December 3, 2024

Bel Canto Twenty Years Later"> Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel <em

Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel <em

Bel Canto Twenty Years Later">

Bel Canto Twenty Years Later">Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

“Through annotation, I saw patterns in the book I’d scarcely been aware of...”

By Ann Patchett | November 11, 2024

The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s"> Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em

The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s">

The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s">Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”

By Jessie Gaynor | May 21, 2024

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Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

By Literary Hub | March 28, 2023

White Noise and Feeling Deep Dread... For Noah Baumbach’s Adaptation">Rereading White Noise and Feeling Deep Dread... For Noah Baumbach’s Adaptation

By Ken Gordon | November 22, 2022

Tess of the D'Urbervilles">The Perpetual Timeliness of Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Janet Beard | October 21, 2021

Doesn't Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books All the Time?

Doesn't Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books All the Time?

Austen, Wharton, and More">Natalie Jenner on Perpetually Returning to
Austen, Wharton, and More

By Natalie Jenner | May 18, 2020

Edmund White: Reading is a Passport to the World

Edmund White: Reading is a Passport to the World

On Revisiting Books Favorite Books, From Proust to Shakespeare

By Edmund White | June 27, 2018

Michael Ondaatje on the Books He Loves to Reread

Michael Ondaatje on the Books He Loves to Reread

Mavis Gallant's Overlooked Stories, Poetry from Around the World, and More

By Michael Ondaatje | May 17, 2018

Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway"> Rereading <em

Rereading <em

Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway">

Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway">Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway

"I Will Gather the Folds of My Life Together, in the Way Clarissa Does"

By Carole Burns | August 3, 2017

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Play It As It Lays and Finds the Right Kind of Feeling">Philipa Snow Reads Play It As It Lays and Finds the Right Kind of Feeling

By Philippa Snow | May 18, 2017

Five Books in My Life: Megan Abbott

Five Books in My Life: Megan Abbott

Frightful Admissions and Books from Other Planets

By Megan Abbott | July 26, 2016

Louise Erdrich: 5 Books In My Life

Louise Erdrich: 5 Books In My Life

LaRose on Learning the Art of the Subversive with Mad Magazine ">The Author of LaRose on Learning the Art of the Subversive with Mad Magazine

By Literary Hub | May 11, 2016

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