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Literary Memoir

Arts

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On Eve Babitz.

Babitz thought she’d die at thirty; she’s now 78 and witnessing her own resurrection. Youth was not wasted on her, and she crammed her life into her sentences.

Lucie Elven London Review of Books Jun 2021 15min Permalink

History

Becoming Anne Frank

Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?

Dara Horn Smithsonian Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Arts Sports

The Moment I Became a Novelist

The baseball game that launched a career in fiction.

Haruki Murakami The Lit Hub Jun 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

The author attends a Tolstoy conference as a grad student. She wears flip-flops, sweatpants and a flannel shirt, and tries to determine if Tolstoy was murdered.

Elif Batuman Harper's Feb 2009 Permalink