<em>Literary Disco</em> Picks Their Favorite Books of the Decade

Literary Disco Picks Their Favorite Books of the Decade

David Grann, Lucia Berlin, George Saunders, and more!

By Literary Disco | December 11, 2019

On the Sacred Bard of the 1960s Chicago Jazz Scene

On the Sacred Bard of the 1960s Chicago Jazz Scene

Thulani Davis on Joseph Jarman and the Rediscovery of
a Musical Avant-Garde Classic

By Thulani Davis | December 11, 2019

Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

Hilary Davidson Takes Us Through Regency Style

By Hilary Davidson | December 10, 2019

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

Lynn Haller Suggests Live Lit, Bookstores with Dogs, and
a Little Spot Called the Hideout

By Lynn Haller | December 10, 2019

The Hypocrisy of Big Business' Relationship to Cannabis

The Hypocrisy of Big Business' Relationship to Cannabis

Lauren Michele Jackson on Race, Weed, and the
Gray Areas of the Legal System

By Lauren Michele Jackson | December 10, 2019

Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

Considering Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error: Foundations of a New Science of Consciousness

By Siri Hustvedt | December 10, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

By Paul Scraton | December 10, 2019

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

By Teddy Wayne | December 10, 2019

What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

By Gabrielle Hickmon | December 10, 2019

Lidia Yuknavitch Reads Her Short Story

Lidia Yuknavitch Reads Her Short Story "Street Walker"

From Our Radio Theater Podcast, Storybound

By Storybound | December 10, 2019

<em>LIC Reading Series Podcast</em>: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

Onstage Conversations at the LIC Reading Series event

By LIC Reading Series | December 10, 2019

Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between<br> Punk and Brexit

Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
Punk and Brexit

laddish mockery..."">Fintan O'Toole: "Mischief, mayhem, bad boys, brutal
laddish mockery..."

By Fintan O'Toole | December 9, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of<br> <em>The Prettiest Star</em>

Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
The Prettiest Star

You Truly Cannot Go Wrong With a Little David Bowie

By Luke Bird | December 9, 2019

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Considering the Relativity of Beauty in Human History

By Umberto Eco | December 9, 2019

How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

On the Ambition of the Early Naked-Eye Astronomers

By L. S. Fauber | December 9, 2019

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