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Bad Jobs in Literature: <br>A Reading List

Bad Jobs in Literature:
A Reading List

Five Novels About Some Shitty Ways to Make a Living

By David Moloney | April 15, 2020

Last Chance Tourism Destroys the Very Places People Want to Save

Last Chance Tourism Destroys the Very Places People Want to Save

Climate Change Should Not Be Treated As Spectacle

By Emily Thomas | April 15, 2020

Writing About Dementia Means Confronting Readers'<br> Deepest Fears

Writing About Dementia Means Confronting Readers'
Deepest Fears

Lynn Casteel Harper on Demystifying and Destigmatizing Illness

By Lynn Casteel Harper | April 15, 2020

Walter Scheidel: We Need to Worry About Inequality Now More Than Ever

Walter Scheidel: We Need to Worry About Inequality Now More Than Ever

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On

By Keen On | April 15, 2020

Amanda Goldblatt on Choosing Never to Be on the Bestseller List

Amanda Goldblatt on Choosing Never to Be on the Bestseller List

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 15, 2020

Aloneness, Or How I’m Learning to Love Solitude

Aloneness, Or How I’m Learning to Love Solitude

From the WMFA Podcast with Courtney Balestier

By WMFA | April 15, 2020

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Portrait of Kaduna City, a Half
Completed Story

By Pwaangulongii Dauod | April 15, 2020

Samantha Irby: 'If You Hate It, Then You Hate Me Because That's All Me'

By Reading Women | April 15, 2020

A Poem by Nicholas Christopher

By Nicholas Christopher | April 15, 2020

Antibody: Starring Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Megan Giddings, and Megha Majumdar

Antibody: Starring Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Megan Giddings, and Megha Majumdar

With Your Host Brian Gresko

By The Antibody Reading Series | April 14, 2020

FSG Live: Tom Rasmussen on <em>Diary of a Drag Queen</em>

FSG Live: Tom Rasmussen on Diary of a Drag Queen

In Conversation With Adam Eli

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 14, 2020

Rekindled: Emerson Whitney in Conversation with Arisa White and Michelle Tea

Rekindled: Emerson Whitney in Conversation with Arisa White and Michelle Tea

On Heaven, Language, and the Accessibility of Knowledge

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 14, 2020

Sheltering: Michael Arceneaux on Emotional Debt and Keeping Your Joy

Sheltering: Michael Arceneaux on Emotional Debt and Keeping Your Joy

The Author of I Don't Want to Die Poor Talks to Maris Kreizman

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 14, 2020

<em>Behind the Mic</em>: On <em>The City We Became</em> by N.K. Jemisin, Read by Robin Miles

Behind the Mic: On The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Read by Robin Miles

Jo Reed and Emily Connelly Discuss N.K. Jemisin's Fantastical Celebration of New York City’s spirit

By Behind the Mic | April 14, 2020

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

"In art, as in life, there is nothing accidental.”

By Richard Pevear | April 14, 2020

The Best Rain in Literature

The Best Rain in Literature

Straight and Silvery, Big as Buckshot, A Thin Knife of Cool

By Emily Temple | April 14, 2020

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