THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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• How surveillance technology infuses policing with even more racial bias. | Lit Hub Politics
• Why studying Goldilocks can help us write emotionally resonant fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
• Claire Boyles considers the impact of the American West’s water crisis on her writing: “In fiction, we connect with characters we don’t have to continue living with, and in that ephemeral state of love we may be more willing to consider ideas and perspectives we would otherwise resist.” | Lit Hub Craft
• “Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.” Steven Thrasher on the killing Jason Arday.​| Lit Hub
• “What if every human being were born with an irresistible need to do good?” Christelle Dabos explores the radical possibilities of empathy. | Lit Hub Craft
• “The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home.” Read from Joan Barfoot’s new novel, Gaining Ground. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Accelerate, dog, accelerate! Elise Broach considers the strange rise of high-level STEM books for babies. | The New Yorker
• Carolyn Kellogg looks at the ambitious literature coming out of California presses Unnamed Press and Transit Books. | Los Angeles Times
• Saad Khan and Joey Chriqui of the “utterly visionary” Khajistan talk to Megan Fernandes. | Broadcast
• Alex Dueben explores how the poetics of Lettrism shows up in comics. | The Comics Journal
• Jessica Simmons-Reid looks at Sophie Calle through the work of Hervé Guibert. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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