Literary Hub - Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: May 7, 2021

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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
about them is false.

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.

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,
the murder of George Floyd, and the refugee experience.

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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