Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: October 20, 2020

Lit Hub Daily
October 20, 2020

TODAY: In 1946, Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power," is born.
TODAY: In 1946, Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, is born.
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
The United States of Anxiety by Jen Lancaster
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Michael Walzer on the origins of political resentment, on the New Books Network.
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On Lit Century, Catherine Nichols and Sandra Newman discuss why Djuna Barnes withdrew into seclusion for the last 40 years of her life.
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Why should we care about so-called genius? Craig Wright in conversation
with Andrew Keen on Keen On.
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How capitalism shaped our modern image of dinosaurs, on Time to Eat the Dogs.
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Artist Ramsess talks to Paul Holdengraber about the circularity of history,
on The Quarantine Tapes.
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
An American Covenant by Lucile Scott
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Read from Cuyahoga.
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