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10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

For Short Trips and Taking Sips

By Literary Hub | June 3, 2021

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | June 3, 2021

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

Fumi Okiji on the Practice of Listening and the Magic of an Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter

By Fumi Okiji | June 3, 2021

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | June 3, 2021

Finding Time to Write About Motherhood... While Parenting During a Pandemic

Finding Time to Write About Motherhood... While Parenting During a Pandemic

Pragya Agarwal on the Struggle to Balance It All

By Pragya Agarwal | June 3, 2021

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

Joe Lemire Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 3, 2021

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Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

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Justice for Clubber Lang: Kiese Laymon on a Cast-Off American Hero

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Celebrating AudioFile's 2021 Golden Voice Narrators: Soneela Nankani

By Behind the Mic | June 3, 2021

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

Jess McHugh on the Complicated Legacy of Betty Crocker

By Jess McHugh | June 2, 2021

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2021

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Philip Ball: “Myths are promiscuous; they were postmodern before the concept existed.”

By Philip Ball | June 2, 2021

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

Teresa Fazio Watches the Documentary The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien

By Teresa Fazio | June 2, 2021

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Lauren Aguirre on Recovering Past Experiences and Forming Fake Ones

By Lauren Aguirre | June 2, 2021

How <em>Mean Girls</em> Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

Grace Perry on Her High School Years, Catholicism, and the 2004 Teen Classic

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“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“We were born weirdos, and New York offered no resistance to that.”

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