Literary Hub - Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: July 1, 2021

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FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 1, 2021

Eula Biss on the Wild Machismo of Prince in the 1984 Film Purple Rain

Eula Biss, noted Prince fan, talks to Mychal Denzel Smith about the star’s unconventional sex appeal and his Purple Rain character’s treatment of women.

Gigi Georges on the False Narratives of Rural America

On Just the Right Book, the author of Downeast joins Roxanne Coady to discuss what the future may hold for rural America.

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Nichole Perkins Performs from Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be

On our radio theater podcast, Nichole Perkins reads from her forthcoming memoir, backed by music from Dustin O’Halloran.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On Book Dreams, Matt Haig talks about recovering from depression, embracing hopefulness in his work, and why that narrative approach often invites criticism • On Open Source, Joshua Cohen considers the end of Netanyahu’s reign • On First Draft, Justin Jannise on making peace with putting it all out there • On The Literary Life, Josh Henkin on writing for the long haul • On Keen On, Jonathan Rauch on the internet’s hostility to the truth, Sabrina Horn against “faking it till you make it,” Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko on the rising popularity of QAnon, Lucy Foulkes on the pandemic’s impact on mental health, and Kishore Mahbubani on America’s contest against China • On New Books Network, Kevin McIlvoy talks about the periodic reemergence of ghost stories • On Behind the Mic, a conversation with Cassandra Campbell, narrator of Where the Crawdads Sing • On The History of Literature, remembering Katherine Mansfield, the only writer Virginia Woolf (allegedly) ever envied • On Emergence Magazine, Nick Hunt searches for the twilight realm of the boar • On Lit Century, the ongoingness of war in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army • On Literary Disco, how Lauren Shapiro’s poems remind us that we’re not just brains in jars • On The Literary Salon, actress Katherine Parkinson reads from Georgia Pritchett’s memoir • On We Have Ways of Making You Talk, James Holland and Al Murray discuss an infamous WWII aircraft • Haven’t read David Copperfield yet? Catch up on chapters 60, 61, and 62 with Audiobook Break

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