Literary Hub - Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: June 17, 2021

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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 17, 2021

How Middlemarch Helped Yang Huang Break Free from a History of Censorship

The author of My Good Son discusses her childhood in China, how censorship restricted her ability to imagine stories, and how George Eliot’s classic helped her break free from these limitations. 

Shir Alon and Joseph Farag on How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict

Scholars Farag and Alon discuss the portrayal of the Palestinian self in literature, and how the unprocessed trauma of the massacre and expulsion of Palestinians periodically reappears in Israeli literature.

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Jordan Kisner Talks Pain, Masculinity, and Cowboys in Chloé Zhao’s The Rider

 What are the stakes of trying to manifest a different version of masculinity than the one you’ve been taught? Jordan Kisner and Mychal Denzel Smith explore the Nomadland director’s 2017 film.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On The Literary Life, the staff of Books & Books recommends summer reads • On Keen On, Stephen Fleming on how the science of self-awareness gives new purpose to writing novels, Joshua Yaffa on chasing artistic dreams in Putin’s Russia, Bryan Burrough on the real story of the Alamo, and Ron Friedman on reverse engineering creative breakthroughs • Behind the Mic interviews Golden Voice narrator Michael Crouch • On New Books Network, Pamela Hamilton talks about unpacking the misconstrued life of Dorothy Hale • On Emergence Magazine, folk singer Sam Lee talks about collaborating with nightingales • Lit Century grapples with Yukio Mishima’s portrayal of murderous children • On Reading Women, Kendra and Jacyln discuss ageism in literature • On NewberyTart, how Shiloh illuminates the right thing and the “righter” thing • On Big Table, Mary Gabriel talks about expanding the story of mid-century American art • On Book Dreams, Menachem Kaiser on the secrets that surface while researching family history • On Just the Right Book, Sherry Turkle on why some stories just take time • We Have Ways of Making You Talk debunks myths about British soldiers and tea time • White Fungus editor Ron Hanson talks about trusting the reader • Haven’t read David Copperfield yet? Catch up on chapters 54, 55, and 56 with Audiobook Break

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