<em>Looking to Get Lost</em> by Peter Guralnick, Read by Jim Meskimen

Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick, Read by Jim Meskimen

Excellent Listening for Music Lovers

By Behind the Mic | February 1, 2021

Barbara Lee on What Shirley Chisholm Gave America

Barbara Lee on What Shirley Chisholm Gave America

The Congresswoman Reflects on Her Mentor

By Rep. Barbara Lee | January 29, 2021

Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

Joyce Maynard on the Day She Spent with the Teacher-Turned-Astronaut

By Joyce Maynard | January 28, 2021

Silencing Ida B. Wells Was<br> Never Going to Happen

Silencing Ida B. Wells Was
Never Going to Happen

Michelle Duster Reflects on Her Great-Grandmother's Legacy

By Michelle Duster | January 27, 2021

Writing the Story of Aunt Jemima's Modern Descendant

Writing the Story of Aunt Jemima's Modern Descendant

Ladee Hubbard Reflects on the Erasure of Racial Violence, Rather than Its Disavowal

By Ladee Hubbard | January 21, 2021

Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

Richard Bradford on Strange Times at the Legendary Writers’ Retreat

By Richard Bradford | January 19, 2021

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Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

By Yiyun Li | January 15, 2021

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
of Ingmar Bergman

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | January 11, 2021

On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

By Nuala O'Connor | January 5, 2021

Where <em>Blues for Mister Charlie</em> Fits into James Baldwin's Oeuvre

Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin's Oeuvre

Isaac Butler Talks to Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
on Lit Century

By Lit Century | December 29, 2020

When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

(But That Didn't Stop Lou Brock From Telling Him to Fetch a Coke)

By Bill Madden | December 22, 2020

Barry Lopez on the Life of a True Naturalist

Barry Lopez on the Life of a True Naturalist

How Richard K. Nelson Went Above and Beyond
His Calling As an Anthropologist

By Barry Lopez | December 18, 2020

The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

Genese Grill on Robert Musil's Intellectual and Creative Life

By Genese Grill | December 17, 2020

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in<br> New Mexico

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
New Mexico

Ken Layne on Magic and War in Los Alamos

By Ken Layne | December 16, 2020

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

Jan Swafford on the Influence of Leopold Mozart on
His Precocious Son

By Jan Swafford | December 15, 2020

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

Patrick Wright on the Final Years of a Wandering Writer

By Patrick Wright | December 11, 2020

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