Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

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As part of The Issues 2024, this episode is largely about unions and labor—but also, a little bit more about romance books because it turns out… people really like romance books!

• Jonny Diamond talks with Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, about the challenges facing organized labor in the 2020s but also the still-young history of the labor movement in America

• Drew Broussard and McKayla Coyle talk about getting into reading romance novels

• An elegy for Robert Coover from Alexandra Kleeman

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