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On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

Rae Nudson Considers the History of the Stonewall Raids and the Protests That Followed

By Rae Nudson | July 14, 2021

<em>The Vixen</em> by Francine Prose, Read by Tristan Morris

The Vixen by Francine Prose, Read by Tristan Morris

Historical Fiction for a Grand Listening Experience

By Behind the Mic | July 14, 2021

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

Scott A. Small on the Surprising Benefits of Memory Loss

By scottasmall | July 13, 2021

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 13, 2021

Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Rick White on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the Whaleness of Whiteyball

By Rick White | July 13, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

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How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

By Savala Nolan | July 13, 2021

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from Dear Black Girl

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“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

“Don’t Let the Pearls Fool You.” On Being the Only Lady at the Poker Table

Helen Ellis Talks Feminine Etiquette, Playing Coy, and Winning

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John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

John Hagel on the Psychology of Fear for the Future

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Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

Sunjeev Sahota on the Struggle and Privilege of Growing Up Between Two Countries

By Sunjeev Sahota | July 13, 2021

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

This Week on the Literary Disco Podcast

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<em>The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story</em>, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

50 Years of Collected Short Fiction

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Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir on the Art Thriving in a Nearly Lost Language

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