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
New on Lit Hub Radio
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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Cundill History Prize | 2020 Finalist Announcement Event
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"even insults can be shakespearean."
A poem by Khaled Mattawa
“psalm under siege”
A poem by
Khaled Mattawa
From Cuyahoga by Paul Beatty.
pete beatty’s
debut novel
Read from Cuyahoga.
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