January 20 – 24, 2025
- Navied Mahdavian revisits The Plot Against America
- Charlotte Rogers considers writers and language loss
- On the power and complexity of laughter
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Frances Ha is All Grown Up
Olivia Rutigliano on the Greta Gerwig Coming-of-Age Comedy Ten Years Later
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month
Featuring New Titles by Elif Batuman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colin Barrett, Ali Smith, and More
Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing
“Mistakes might be inevitable, but I think they are worth mitigating.”
Finding Love (and Marriage) by Accident in Upstate New York
Aileen Weintraub on the Time She Met Her Future Husband in the Grocery Store
Visiting My Feminist Foremothers in a Mostly Inaccessible City
Victoria Reynolds Farmer on Virginia Woolf, Aphra Behn, and a Trip to London
When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever
“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”
“Deciding to Put My Writing Out There Has Changed My Life.” A Conversation with Jillian Luft
In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast
How Did a Fictionalized Leonard Cohen End Up in My Novel?
Francesca Giacco on Taking From Fact to Add to Fiction
Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire
This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels’ Debut Novel
In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network
Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain
This Week from The Common Podcast
Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman, Read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton
All the love for Heartstopper’s Nick and Charlie
Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast
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