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Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

How Writers Speak to One Another Across Time and Space

By Zadie Smith | July 23, 2021

Reckoning with Family Legacies at an Ohio Drive-Thru Liquor Store

Reckoning with Family Legacies at an Ohio Drive-Thru Liquor Store

Athena Dixon on the Long Reach of Addiction

By Athena Dixon | July 23, 2021

Ross King on the Man Who Changed Bookselling

Ross King on the Man Who Changed Bookselling

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | July 23, 2021

Karen Salyer McElmurray on Eastern Kentucky and the Power of Magic

Karen Salyer McElmurray on Eastern Kentucky and the Power of Magic

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | July 23, 2021

<em>Tokyo Ever After</em> by Emiko Jean, Read by Ali Ahn

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean, Read by Ali Ahn

What If You Suddenly Discovered You Were Royalty?

By Behind the Mic | July 23, 2021

On <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

Matt Mitchell Builds His Own Intersex Canon

By Matt Mitchell | July 22, 2021

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When Your Therapist Needs a Therapist

By Adam Stern, MD | July 22, 2021

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

By The Maris Review | July 22, 2021

Ben Rhodes on the Crisis of Democracy

By Keen On | July 22, 2021

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 22, 2021

On Eileen Myles’ <em>Inferno</em>, and the “Poets Novel”

On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

Cedar Sigo on Texts That Focus on the Poet, Rather Than the Poetry

By Cedar Sigo | July 22, 2021

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

On the Colonialism of Contemporary Education

By Leigh Patel | July 22, 2021

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

Geoffrey Hilsabeck on the Dizzying Dream of This Country’s First Entertainment Industry

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck | July 22, 2021

The Attack of Difficult <strike>Women</strike> Prose

The Attack of Difficult Women Prose

Gail Scott Considers Lit-Crit’s Underestimation of Female Genius

By Gail Scott | July 22, 2021

WATCH: Natalie Diaz on Criminalized Resistance and Writing Like She Played Basketball

WATCH: Natalie Diaz on Criminalized Resistance and Writing Like She Played Basketball

From the Border Crossings' ORIGINS Festival

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 22, 2021

<em>Sisters of the Neversea</em> by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Read by Katie Anvil Rich

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Read by Katie Anvil Rich

Excellent Family Listening

By Behind the Mic | July 22, 2021

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