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THE BEST IN BOOK WORLD PODCASTS

FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 15, 2021

VOYAGE INTO GENRE

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

Tor Books presents Voyage Into Genre! Tune in for conversations with Tor authors discussing their new books, the future, and the future of genre—kicking off with T. L. Huchu and P. Djèlí Clark, plus Black Gotham Experience founder Kamau Ware.

THE LITERARY LIFE

Richard Flanagan on Writing His Novel Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

The author of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams talks to host Mitchell Kaplan about trying to capture, in real time, the strangeness of how humans behave in times of crisis and confusion.

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BOOK DREAMS

How The Baby-Sitters Club Influenced a Generation of Writers

David Levithan talks about how the 300-book Baby-Sitters Club series has shaped storytelling, starting his career with the BSC as a 19-year-old intern, and working with Ann M. Martin, the original author. 

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts Whit and Sugi celebrate their 100th episode with a retrospective featuring special guest Jabari Asim • On The Maris Review, Kristen Radtke describes the biology of loneliness • On Storybound, Tamara Winfrey-Harris reads from Dear Black Girl • On Keen On, David Potter on what Lenin and Luther can teach us about injustice, Peter Sterling on America’s lack of basic support structures, John Hagel on the psychology of fear for the future, and Mary Gauthier on songwriting as a form of healing • On New Books Network, Jessica Barksdale Inclán imagines a Shakespeare haunted by Jessicas • On The Quarantine Tapes, Rebecca Mead on finding ways to keep reporting through lockdown • On The History of Literature, German artist Charlie Stein discusses her series, 100 Paintings Imagined by Authors • On First Draft, Steven Pressfield’s theory on the artist as warrior • On Emergence Magazine, Kimberly Ruffin shares her guided practice of walking through the forest • On We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Hans Onderwater discusses the Hunger Winter in the German-occupied Netherlands • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean, Revival Season by Monica West, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story edited by John Freeman, The Vixen by Francine Prose, The Free World by Louis Menand

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