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Hosted by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, fiction/non/fiction interprets current events through the lens of literature, and features conversations with writers of all stripes, from novelists and poets to journalists and essayists.
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S9, Ep 1 Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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S8, Ep 52 Caleb Gayle on Black Settlers in the American West
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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S8, Ep. 51 Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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S8, Ep 50 Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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S8, E49 Patrick Ryan on ‘The Good Heart’ of Buckeye
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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S8, Ep. 48 Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 47: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 46: Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 45: Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 44: Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 43: Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith and American Authoritarians
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 42: Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 41: Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 40: Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 39: Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 38: Geoff Dyer on His New Memoir, Homework
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 37: Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 36: Susan Choi on Flashlight
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 35: Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America–and the New Pope
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May 29, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 34: Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap
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May 22, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 33: Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition
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May 15, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 32: Hamilton Nolan on DIY Opinion Writing
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May 08, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 31: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe on Trump’s South African Connection
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May 01, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 30: Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 29: Vauhini Vara on AI, Art, and Memory
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 28: Sheila Sundar on International Scholars
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 27: Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 26: Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 25: Edmund White on The Loves of My Life
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 24: Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 23: Karen Weingarten/Abortion Stories Before Roe v. Wade
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 22: Novelists Suzette Mayr and Kai Thomas on Canada Versus Trump
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 21: Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 20: Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and his Tech Oligarchs.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 19: Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 18: Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 17: Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 16: Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 15: Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 14 REBROADCAST: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on Percival Everett and American Fiction
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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S8 Ep. 13: Ellie Palmer and Elle Everhart on the Rise of Romance
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 12: Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 11: Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 10: Carvell Wallace on Love, Survival, and Endings
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 9: REBROADCAST: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 8: Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump's Plans for Mass Deportation
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 7: Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 6: Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Puerto Ricans, Trump, and the Election
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 5: Jess Walter on the Election
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 4: Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 3: Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 2: Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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S8 Ep. 1: Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 52: Myriam J.A. Chancy on Haitian American Communities
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 51: Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 50: Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 49: Alissa Quart on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 48: Joshua Kaplan on AP3 and the Future of American Militias
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 47: Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 46: Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 45: Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 44: Ellie Palmer and Elle Everhart on the Rise of Romance
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 43: Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 42: Sally Franson and Emily Nussbaum on Reality TV
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 41: Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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From the Archives: S1 Ep. 6: Kiki Petrosino and Jess Walter on All the President's Shakespeare
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 39: Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 38: Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 37: Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and Hiding for Her Life
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 36: Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance With Through Hiking
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 35: Remembering Alice Munro: Jonny Diamond on His Mother and the Great Canadian Writer
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May 30, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 34: Prizes and Protests: Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza
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May 23, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 33: Polycules and Cuddle Piles: Brandy Jensen on the Mainstreaming of Polyamory
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May 16, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 32: This Strange Eventful History: Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction
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May 09, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 31: Come Together: Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World
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May 02, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 30: Cashing in on the White Bonus: Tracie McMillan on Privilege, Generational Wealth, and the Myth of Colorblindness
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 29: There’s Going to Be Trouble: Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 28: How We Talk About Cancer: S.L. Wisenberg on Kate Middleton and the Language of the Big C
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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REDUX: S7 Ep. 27: David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 27: David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 26: En Vogue: Sally Franson on Fashion and Literature
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 25: Ivy Pochoda on Iowa Basketball Star Caitlin Clark and Women Athletes in Popular Culture
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 24: Lessons for Survival: Emily Raboteau on Mothering and Climate Change
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 23: Alabama’s Embryos: Briallen Hopper on the Personal and Political Consequences of the New IVF Court Decision
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 22: Hit ’Em Where It Hurts: Rachel Bitecofer on Democratic Strategies to Counter Republicans in the 2024 Election
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 21: The Road From Belhaven: Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 20: ‘They Want What We Have’: Matt Gallagher on Supporting Ukrainians' Struggle for Liberation
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 19: American Fiction: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on the Joy, Pathos, and Complexity of Black Experience in the Oscar-Nominated Film
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 18: AWP 2024 Preview: Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 17: ‘What is History?’: Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 16: Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 15: Bookstores Against Bans: Lauren Groff on Opening The Lynx in Florida
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 14: Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the Model Minority Myth: Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential Candidates
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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S7 Ep. 13: Holiday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 12: The Best Books Machine: Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 11: The Free and the Freed: Tracy K. Smith on Liberty
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 10: Chicago in Verse: Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 9: American Farce: Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf**k
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 8 Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 7: American Precariat: Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 6: Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 5: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 4: Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and Then
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 3: Freeman’s: Conclusions: John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 2: The Return of #MeToo: Rebecca Makkai on New Allegations and the Progress of the Past Five Years
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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S7 Ep. 1: The AI Pirates: The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner on Books3, Copyright, and How Big Tech is Stealing Our Books
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 52: Librarians Against Book Bans: Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 51: Art Under Fire in Ukraine: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding as the Fighting Drags on
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 50: The African Coups: Leila Aboulela on Why They Happen, and the Violence in Sudan
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 49: Georgia’s Fani Willis Takes on Trump: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 48: Is Kansas the Future of Press Censorship?: Sherman Smith on the Police Raid at a Small-Town Newspaper
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 47: Lit Hub’s American Vacation: Novelist Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 46: How Progressives Win: Journalist Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 45: The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 44: The Summer of Love or Hate: Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 43: X Marks the Spot: Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 42: SCOTUS vs. MFA: Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 41: Owner of a Lonely Heart: Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 40: In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 39: The Kids Are at Work: Jean Kwok On Recent Efforts to Loosen Child Labor Laws and Her Years as a Child Worker in New York
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 38: Everybody Hates Joe: Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and What He Must Do To Win Them Back
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 37: Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 36: Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell Talks Living on a Political Mobius Strip
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 35: Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 34: Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy
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May 25, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 33: The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting
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May 18, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 32: The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin
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May 11, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 31: Ready Player One: B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play
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May 04, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 30: Ralph Yarl, Defunding Libraries, and (Re)Writing Kansas City: José Faus, C.J. Janovy, and Desideria Mesa on the Importance of Crafting New Narratives in a Divided City
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 29: Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 28: An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 27: Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 26: The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 25: Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 24: Iraq 20 Years After the U.S. Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 23: Letters to a Writer of Color: Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Finding Community With Each Other
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 22: More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 21: Kingdom Quarterback: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 20: Remembering an American Writer: Anthony Walton on James Alan McPherson’s Essays and Legacy
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 19: The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 18: This Other Eden: Paul Harding on Imagining Our Integrated Past
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 17: Chatbot vs. Writer: Vauhini Vara on the Perils and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 16: In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 15: Vintage Contemporaries: Dan Kois on the Joys and Sorrows of Literary New York in the 1990s and 2000s
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 14: Brotherless Night & Friends: V.V. Ganeshananthan with Curtis Sittenfeld and Whitney Terrell on Editing A Work in Progress
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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S6 Ep. 13: Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2022, with Emily Temple and Katie Yee
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 12: The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 11: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, featuring Michael Knight
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Introducing Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 10: White Horse: Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 9: With the Ancestors: Buki Papillon on African Folklore and Wakanda Forever
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 8: Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 7: The Talented Mr. Musk: Dan Chaon on Twitter, Identity, and Imposters
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 6: Nancy Pelosi’s Majority: Matthew Clark Davison’s San Francisco Take on a National Leader
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 5: The Author of Election on the Election: Tom Perrotta on Tracy Flick’s Return and the Midterms
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 4: Women Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests Against the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 3: Pakistan Under Water: Aamina Ahmad on Disaster and Despair After the Historic Floods
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 2: Crime Without Punishment: How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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S6 Ep. 1: Between Fiction and Autofiction: Elizabeth McCracken on Discussing Private Grief in Public
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 43: Forging Immigrant Identity in Florida: Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 42: Frenemies of the State: Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 41: On Time and Meaning: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us about Today
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 40: Book the Vote: Rachel DeWoskin on Registering Voters (Right Now!) and the Connection Between Writing and Democracy
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 39: The Long Shadow of Colonialism: Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on German Conquest in East Africa and His Latest Novel, AFTERLIVES
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 38: Chinese Conquest and Two Sisters Who Rebelled: Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 37: Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 36: Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 35: The Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s Lies
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 34: The New Homeless: Emi Nietfeld on the Growing Number of Unhoused Americans
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 33: The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 32: Happy Bastille Day: Will the Center Hold in France? Should It?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 31: What Do Dems Do Now?: Thomas Frank on How the Left Can Counter a Rogue Supreme Court
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 30: The Literature of Star Wars: Van Lathan Jr. on How American Life Shapes and Is Shaped by a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 29: ‘A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand’: Héctor Tobar Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 28: The Prose Version of That Blue Steel Look From Zoolander: V.V. Ganeshananthan Dishes on Blurbs, Jacket Copy, Cover Art, and All the Dark Arts of Publishing a Book
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 27: ‘Gun Violence Has Traumatized All of Us’: Amye Archer on the Long History of Mass Shootings
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 26: ‘Let Me Say It With All My Heart: This is Such Bullshit’: Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 25: A Change of Fortune: Sunila Galappatti on the #GotaGoHome Protests in Sri Lanka
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May 26, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 24: Live from Unbound: Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri
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May 19, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 23: The Brothers Chao: Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives
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May 12, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 22: Live from Unbound: Alex George on the ‘Absolutely Extraordinary Journey’ of Running a Book Festival
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May 05, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 21: Live from Unbound: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu on Affirming and Subverting Pop Culture in Fiction
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Introducing Storybound
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 20: ‘A Spiritual-Industrial Complex’: SJ Sindu on Writing the Life of a Child God
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 19: ‘The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger’: Alexandra Billings on What’s Behind the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 18: ‘Unlivable and Untenable’: Molly McGhee on the Punishing Life of Junior Publishing Employees
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 17: ‘We’re There to Bear Witness’: Putsata Reang on Reporting in War Zones
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 16: ‘One of the Worst Places on Earth’: Mansoor Adayfi on the 20th Anniversary of Guantánamo Bay Prison
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 15: ‘Forget What You Know About War’: Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us About the Invasion of Ukraine
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 14: ‘They Didn’t Know Which Way to Go’: Katya Soldak Sheds Light on the Plight of the Ukrainian People
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 13: Censoring the American Canon: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Book Bans Targeting Black Writers
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 12: Intimate Contact: Garth Greenwell on Book Bans and Writing About Sex
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 11: 'The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity'
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 10: ‘How on Earth Do You Judge Books?’: Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Real Story Behind Literary Awards
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 9: ‘Likes Do Not Count’: Anton Troianovski and Marci Shore on Why Russia’s ‘Post-Truth’ Aggression Toward Ukraine Matters to All of Us
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 8: Exceeding Surge Capacity: Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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S5 Ep. 7: Complicity, Corruption, and Accountability: Asali Solomon on The Days of Afrekete and the January 6 Investigation
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 6: Immigration in Europe: Nadifa Mohamed on Belarus, Brexit, and the EU’s Accelerating Racism Towards Migrants of Color
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 5: The Internet Giveth, the Internet Taketh Away: Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on What We’ve Lost and Gained (But Mostly Lost) in the Age of Social Media
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 4: Live From the Miami Book Fair 2021: Joshua Ferris on the Great Recession, Writing About Capitalism, and A Calling for Charlie Barnes
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 3: Live From the Miami Book Fair 2021: Ha Jin on China, Taiwan, and A Song Everlasting
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 2: The Country Roads Ahead: Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill Consider the Future of Rural Writing
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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S5 Ep. 1: WTF, Texas … Again?: Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 26: Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 25: Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 24: Obama Era Redux: Nawaaz Ahmed on Islam, Sexuality, Politics, and Publishing His First Novel
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 23: From the Mouths of Babes: Wayne Miller and Elizabeth Gaffney on Writing About Children in Uncertain Times
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Presents Wondery's True Love
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 22: Why Be A Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 21: Fiction/Non/Fiction at 100 Episodes: Whit, Sugi, and Special Guest Jabari Asim Reflect on the Podcast’s Indelible Interviews and Controversies From the Past Four Years
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 20: ‘Goldfish Memory’: Adam Serwer on Critical Race Theory and the Very American Fear of Owning up to Our Racist Past and Present
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 19: A Cycle of Disappearance: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 18: In the Soup: Sean McDonald and Monica West On Publishing During, and After, a Pandemic
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 17: Biden Boom? Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess
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May 20, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 16: Making It New: Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota's Famed Literary Scene is Reacting to Racial Injustice at Home
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May 06, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 15: Workshop Politics: Matthew Salesses on Centering Traditionally Marginalized Writers
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 14: This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 13: Cancel Culture or Consequences Culture?: Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature and Media
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 12: WTF, Texas?: Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 11: COVID Doesn't Know Boundaries: Uzodinma Iweala, Bindu Shajan Perappadan and Suhasini Raj on How African Countries and India Have Handled COVID-19
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 10: 'A Certain Kind of Hunger': Chang-rae Lee on Writing About Connection While We're Worlds Apart
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 9: Making Good: Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn On Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 8: Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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S4 Ep. 7: The Facts of Life: Claire Messud and Brendan O'Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of 'Fake News'
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 6: Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 5: Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig On Living and Writing Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 4: Life After Trump: Jess Walter and Jerald Walker on the Aftermath of Election 2020
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Myth-Making
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 2: We're in a Scary Movie, and It's Called 2020: emily m. danforth and Laura van den Berg Discuss Literary Horror and Our Upcoming Election
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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S4 Ep. 1: Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza Discuss How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 26: The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the 'New South' and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 25: No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolinda on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 23: We've Been Here Before: Kaitlyn Greenidge and Russell Banks on the Past and Present of Protest and White Backlash
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 22: The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 21: Breaking the Mold: Christopher Buckley and Sara Paretsky on Reinventing Genre
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 20: Aiming to Heal When There Is No Cure: Daniela Lamas and C. Dale Young on Doctoring and Our Pandemic Future
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 19: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd Protests
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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S3 Ep 18: On Feminism and Fictionalized Histories: Curtis Sittenfeld Tackles Centrism, Clintonism, and All Things ‘Hillary Rodham'
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 17: Poetry, Prose, and the Climate Crisis: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global Inequality
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May 21, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 16: Solitude Versus Sociability: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Being Alone and Making Connections
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May 07, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 15: Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship: Danez Smith on Language, Connection, and 'Homie'
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 14: Alternate Histories and Silenced Women: Sue Monk Kidd on Her New Novel The Book of Longings
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 13: Literature in the Face of COVID-19: Rigoberto González and Deb Olin Unferth on Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 12: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Rebecca Solnit on Her Memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 11: Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Chavisa Woods on the Sanders Campaign, Race, and Gender
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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S3 Ep 10: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 9: All the President's Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, and the Long History of Henching in Politics and Literature
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 8: Who Can Be A Citizen?: Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi on Hindu Nationalism, Exclusion, and Belonging in Modi's India
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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S3 Ep. 7: Live at the Miami Book Fair: T.C. Boyle on Writing About LSD and Outside Looking In
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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A Holiday Re-Broadcast
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 6: The Language of Abuse: Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper on Private and Public Violence in the Trump Era
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 5: Live at the Miami Book Fair: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Where's my new Fiction/Non/Fiction episode?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 4: Wild Life: Tucker Malarkey, Will Bardenwerper, and Stan Brewer on Hope and Conservation
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 3. Horror in the Headlines: Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy on Scary Stories
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 2. The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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S3 Ep. 1: The Secret Lives of Editors: Rakesh Satyal, Brian Birnbaum, & M.K. Rainey on the World of Editing
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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26: In Hong Kong, A Movement Grows: Javier C. Hernández and Xu Xi on the City's Battle With Beijing
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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25: An American Abroad: Deborah Landau and Mathangi Subramanian on Expat Writing
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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24. On Whiteness Part 2: Jess Row and Timothy Yu Talk Writing About Race
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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24. On Whiteness Part I: Jess Row and Timothy Yu Talk Writing About Race
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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23: The Iranian Revolution at 40: Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri On the Anniversary of the Republic
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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22: Space is the Place: Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Mary Anne Mohanraj on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11's Moon Landing
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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21: The Military in a Time of Trump: Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Armed Services Past and Future
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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20: A Court Supreme: Irin Carmon and Jay Wexler on Writing About SCOTUS and Justice in Fiction and Nonfiction
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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19: Podcasting Pro Tips and Jonny Diamond on Creating LitHub Radio
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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18: Slouching Toward Gilead: Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson on the new anti-abortion laws
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May 30, 2019 |
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17: Against Genre Snobbery: Marlon James and Daniel José Older on the Intersections of Literary and Genre Writing
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May 16, 2019 |
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16: Democrats in the Bardo: George and Paula Saunders on Politics and Writing
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May 02, 2019 |
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15: Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad Tell a Different Kind of Climate Change Story
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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14: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Lit Mags (And Likely More)
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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13: Fiction/Non/Fiction: March Madness Edition
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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12: Trans is Not New: Gender in Writing
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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11: Academy Awards Season Episode
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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10: Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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9: Can I Get A Witness: God and Faith in American Fiction
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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8: Notice Me: How Literary Publicity Works
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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7: Bich Minh Nguyen on the Refugee Experience of Holiday Narratives
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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6: Athletes, Politics, and Power: With Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and Etan Thomas
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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5: Madeline Miller on Circe, Homer, Translation, and Adaptation (recorded live at the Miami Book Fair)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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4: Edmund White and Emily Temple on Writers vs. Writers
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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3: Jane Coaston and Alexander Chee on Politics, Storytelling, and the Midterms
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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2: Idra Novey and Esmé Wang Talk Mental Health and Writing
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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1: MFA vs. Everything
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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26: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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25: Nathaniel Rich and Juliana Spahr: As the World Burns, Trump Tweets
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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24: All About the Green: Getting That Big, Fat Writer's Advance
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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23: James Traub and Margot Livesey on Decency vs. Moral Weakness
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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22: Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin on the Problem With Dead Girl Stories
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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21: Mira Jacob and Pamela Paul Talk Reboots & Superheroes
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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20: #FamiliesBelongTogether: a Conversation
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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19: Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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18: Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres
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May 31, 2018 |
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17: The Return of Socialism in America?
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May 17, 2018 |
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16: Fate and Fortune: What Are We Responsible For
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May 03, 2018 |
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15: So, Who's Funny in the Age of Trump?
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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14: All Fiction is Crime Fiction
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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13: At the Intersection of Nationalism, Religion, and Social Media
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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12: #Neveragain and the Hope of Student Protest
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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11: Annihilation, Adaptation: What's It Really Like to Have Your Book Made Into a Movie
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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10: Anti-Semitism and the Authoritarian Playbook
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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9: A Whole New Kind of Obscenity?
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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8: Literary Color Lines
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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7: How Has Literary Life Changed in 20 Years? With Curtis Sittenfeld and Oscar Villalon
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Dec 28, 2017 |
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6: All the President's Shakespeare
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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5: The New Culture Wars: Higher Ed Edition
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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4: We're All Russian, Now
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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3: The Power of Facebook: How Big is Too Big?
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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2: Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins on Abuse, Harassment, and Harvey Weinstein
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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The Art of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick Edition
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Oct 05, 2017 |