The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

This Week on the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | July 13, 2021

<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

By Behind the Mic | July 13, 2021

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

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

AKA the Time George Lucas Disowned a Star Wars Production

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross | July 12, 2021

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Elizabeth Greenwood On the People Who Seek Relationships with the Incarcerated

By Elizabeth Greenwood | July 12, 2021

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Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

By Carrot Quinn | July 12, 2021

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

By Joyce Maynard | July 12, 2021

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

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How America’s Lack of Basic Support is Shortening Lives

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Peter Sterling in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 12, 2021

Kimberly Ruffin Shares Her Guided Practice of Walking Through the Forest

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This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 12, 2021

Steven Pressfield on the Artist<br> as Warrior

Steven Pressfield on the Artist
as Warrior

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 12, 2021

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

From the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 12, 2021

<em>Revival Season</em> by Monica West, Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Revival Season by Monica West, Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt

A Summer of Revival, Dissolution, and Magic

By Behind the Mic | July 12, 2021

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Elizabeth Poliner Close Reads Anton Chekhov’s “The Darling” and Munro’s “Friend of My Youth”

By Elizabeth Poliner | July 9, 2021

A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction

A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction

Robert Rubsam on the Author’s Allegiance to the Human

By Robert Rubsam | July 9, 2021

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