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THE BEST IN BOOK WORLD PODCASTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 7, 2021
The Zuckerberg Effect: What We Get Wrong About Startup Stories Andrew Keen is joined by Ali Tamaseb, author of Super Founders, to discuss what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest, as well as to reveal why nearly everything we thought
Hanif Abdurraqib on Decentering Pain Hanif Abdurraqib guests on both Thresholds and The Literary Life to discuss his new book, A Little Devil in America.
Loan Le on Reliving Those Emotional Teenage Years On So Many Damn Books, Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard talk to Loan Le about writing her YA novel, A Pho Love Story.
Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism What happens when a fascist leader takes control of a country ruled by monopolies? Tim Wu talks to Roxanne Coady about the potential fallout.
Nadia Owusu Recommends Hunt for the Wilderpeople On Open Form, Nadia Owusu and Mychal Denzel Smith break down Taika Waititi’s 2016 film, which subverts both the orphan trope and the buddy comedy.
In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying On The Maris Review, Maggie Shipstead joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Great Circle, out now from Knopf.
Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find Co-hosts Jennie and Marcy chat with the author of The First Rule of Punk about how the wide world of zines—and its narrow representations—inspired her work.
Wrestling with Derrida’s Concept This week on First Draft, Viet Thanh Nguyen joins host Mitzi Rapkin to discuss the driving questions behind his new novel, The Committed.
How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Responding to Racial Injustice at Home On Fiction/Non/Fiction, poet Michael Kleber-Diggs and memoirist Kao Kalia Yang speak to the Twin Cities’ literary community,
Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio On Keen On, Ron Brownstein on the one monumental year that marked the city of LA’s creative peak, Sarah Kendzior on how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible, Seth Goldenberg on developing a practice of radical curiosity, and Niall Ferguson on the dangers of focusing on a single disaster scenario • On The History of Literature, a look at the life, works, and outlook of Salman Rushdie • In you case you missed it, the Language Keepers podcast series from Emergence Magazine has been awarded a Peabody • On Time to Eat the Dogs, Meredith Small on how Venice invented the world • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of Amina’s Song by Hena Khan, Everything Said Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold, Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros, and Dreamers by Yuyi Morales • On Storybound, Madhuri Vijay performs an excerpt from The Far Field • On Reading Women, Chloe Fergusson-Tibble recommends Māori literature • On The Quarantine Tapes, Tracy K. Smith on how poetic vocabulary helps us reclaim joy and Durs Grünbein on the hollowness of performing poetry on Zoom • On We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Al Murray and James Holland discuss the women codebreakers who helped win the war from Bletchley Park • On Book Dreams, Dr. Edith Eger talks about how to escape hopelessness during uncertain times • On Otherppl, Brad Listi talks to Gina Nutt about the creative usefulness of feeling stuck • On New Books Network, Greta Kelly on beauty as weaponry in The Frozen Crown • Open Source looks for Armenia, and finds it globally • On The Common podcast, Deborah Lindsay Williams on asking better questions about the status quo • Haven’t read David Copperfield yet? Catch up on chapters 37, 38, and 39 with Audiobook Break
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