Literary Hub - Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: May 21, 2021

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FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 21, 2021

On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

Co-hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols discuss Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 mega-bestseller Valley of the Dolls, and how it treats sexuality, success, and glamour purely as sources of misery. 

Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

Andrew Keen is joined by Andy Norman, author of Mental Immunity, to discuss inoculating our minds against
the worst forms of ideological contagion.

Can We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?

When did patriotism become a lightning rod, and why? On Just the Right Book, Steven Smith talks to Roxanne Coady about his new book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On First Draft, Layla AlAmmar talks about who gets to dictate how a story is told • The hosts of So Many Damn Books go on a Patricia Highsmith deep read • On Emergence Magazine, what we can learn from the survival narratives of Noah’s Ark • On Keen On, Jon Levy makes a case for caring as the new networking, Barrett Swanson recounts his search for reality in a “post-truth” America, and John Judis talks about the future of the center-left • On The History of Literature, Jacke Wilson asks, what can we still take from Philip Larkin? • On Big Table, director Nick Ebeling unpacks the enigma of Dennis Hopper • On Otherppl, Courtney Zoffness talks to Brad Listi about the characteristic that writers share • On Reading Women, T Kira Madden discusses centering Pacific Island voices • On NewberyTart, Julia Franks talks about why she created a (much-needed) children’s literacy app • On The Literary Salon, Krystal Sutherland reads from her YA novel, House of Hollow • On The Maris Review, Elizabeth McCracken talks about placing her characters in unexpected settings • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of You Are Ready for Takeoff by Susan Orlean, The Set Up by Falguni Kothari, First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Takeover by Noah Feldman, and The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns by Corinthia M. Sookup • On Book Dreams, Laurie Frankel talks about the way that girls “superhero” • On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian discuss the fiction of the economy and the dangerous appeal of excess • On We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Katja Hoyer breaks down Hitler’s campaign for office • On New Books Network, Adrian Tchaikovsky makes a case against humanity as the final rung of evolution • Haven’t read David Copperfield yet? Catch up on chapters 43, 44, and 45 with Audiobook Break

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