Literary Hub - Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: June 24, 2021

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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 24, 2021

How Language Limits Our Ability to Describe Smells

M. Leona Godin joins Catherine Nichols to discuss Helen Keller’s 1908 book The World I Live In, which offers Keller’s remarkable insight of the world as perceived through three senses.

Jason Diamond on the Yuppie Nightmare of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice

The author of The Sprawl talks to host Mychal Denzel Smith about the overlooked subgenre of “yuppie anxiety” in 80s films (and, of course, the acting genius of Catherine O’Hara).

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Cultivating Orchids, and Resiliency, in Post-War Colombia

In this narrated essay, Heather Swan travels to Colombia, where nearly half of the country’s 4,300 native species of orchid are endangered. There, she meets one family pursuing restoration by cultivating native orchids and returning them to the wild.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On The Maris Review, Joan Silber discusses travel and the dangers of parochialism • On Storybound, Matt Haig performs an excerpt from The Midnight Library • On Otherppl, Forrest Gander on the investment required of reading poetry • On Reading Women, Kristen Arnett talks about the loneliness of queer parenting in red states • On Keen On, Robert Pearl on how the culture of medicine kills both patients and doctors, George Zarkadakis on the fourth industrial revolution, Nichola Raihani on how cooperation shaped the world, and Amit Katwala on the future of quantum computing • On The Common, Silvia Spring talks living abroad and writing in community • On New Books Network, Andy Weir on the problem of interstellar travel • On Behind the Mic, Soneela Nankani on the path that led her to a career in audiobook narration • On The History of Literature, Laurie Frankel and Jacke Wilson list the top 10 things to love about Hamlet • On First Draft, Diane Seuss discusses her new book of poetry • On The Literary Salon, Melissa Scholes Young reads from The Hive • On The Quarantine Tapes, Arman Naféei discusses his unique role of “directeur d’ambiance” • Haven’t read David Copperfield yet? Catch up on chapters 57, 58, and 59 with Audiobook Break

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