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THE BEST IN BOOK WORLD PODCASTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 21, 2021
Phoebe Robinson on Her New Imprint and Anti-Racism Reading Lists Phoebe Robinson joins Maris Kreizman to talk about the publishing industry’s pitfalls and her new essay collection.
Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels “I had this idea that the novel can change things.” Franzen is back, and he’s letting go. Heather Clark on Writing Sylvia Plath The Red Comet author talks about the years-long project of composing a massive biography, plus charting Plath’s growth as a person and a creative.
Why Arrival Looks So Different After COVID-19 Ilana Masad talks to Mychal Denzel Smith about the Ted Chiang adaptation and the concept of “elite panic.” Alfred Molina on His Genre-Spanning Career The actor discusses his work on audiobooks, including the new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links.
Bad Seed Warren Ellis on the Spirituality of Music and Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum Host Jordan Kisner sits down with Warren Ellis, musician and author of Nina Simone’s Gum, to chat about where Warren’s new book came from and how he learned to write it.
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Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Robert Draper discusses his book To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq. Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment The author of Bewilderment talks to Mitzi Rapkin about falling in love with a word that unites the arts and the sciences.
The Country Roads Ahead: Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America Novelist Julia Elliott and poet and writer DaMaris B. Hill join Fiction/Non/Fiction to consider the writing and face of rural America—particularly as it might look 30 years from now.
Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio On Lit Century, how photography shaped Wright Morris’s fiction • On The Quarantine Tapes, Forrest Gander on grief, translation, and sharing joy, and Derecka Purnell on abolition and the pursuit of freedom • On The Literary Life, Lauren Groff talks about exploring the many meanings of “matrix” • On Micro, listen to spooky flash fiction from Nick Olson, Noa Covo, and Tyler Barton • On Otherppl, how Catherine Raven befriended a wild fox • On Emergence Magazine, a narrated essay by Catherine Bush about reciprocity, care, and ecological loss • The History of Literature considers the seduction of mysteries • On New Books Network, Beth Alvarado on writing about the borderlands • On The Literary Salon, Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström reads from In Every Mirror She’s Black • Reading Women considers the emotional complexities of women’s crime fiction • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, April in Spain by John Banville, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón, Talk to Me by T.C. Boyle, and Taste by Stanley Tucci • Catch up on The Iliad with Book 11 and Book 12, on Audiobook Break
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