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• Clear room on your bookshelves! Here are the 249 books we’re anticipating coming out in the second half of 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Maris Kreizman on what it looked like to unionize against big five publishing’s unlivable wages and fighting the industry’s elitism. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Leigh Claire La Berge looks back at Corporate America’s Y2K response and the digital apocalypse that wasn’t. | Lit Hub Technology
• “I’ve been researching this one in some sense my whole life, or at least since I was old enough to watch old Hitchcock films with my mom.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Meg Waite Clayton. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Poetry by Nasser Rabah JD
• “I wasn’t there to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t not on the table, either.”  Benedict Nguyễn on teaching English in Paris while revising her novel. | Lit Hub Craft
• New books Tuesday [drafts] GB
• “Like an Olympian, she’d be a representative of her country abroad; she’d bring back the metaphorical gold, much to the envy and admiration of everyone she’d left behind.” From Wanting by Claire Jia, out now from Tin House. | Lit Hub Fiction
• New fiction by Zadie Smith, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Jhumpa Lahiri, inspired by fiction from The New Yorker’s hundred-year archive. | The New Yorker
• “Disruptive and restorative, interpolation is the paradoxical form of life, literature, and time itself.” Hannah Weaver considers Proust and interpolation. | Public Books
• Rachel Kushner on her time at Berkeley, and the power of looking at everything. | The New York Times
• “I can’t help but think that he was the best president we never had.” John Nichols remembers Bill Moyers. | The Nation
• John Last explores the colorful history of tarot cards. | Smithsonian Magazine

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