Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

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FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 22, 2021

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Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of the poetry collection, Felon, talks to Brad Listi about his incredible story—and the burden it carries.

KEEN ON

Ben Rhodes on the Crisis of Democracy

Andrew Keen talks to the former White House aide about why democracy is broken both in America and around the world, and what we can do to fix it.

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NEWBERYTART

Against Defanging Children’s Book Authors

Marcy and Jennie kick off Season 7 of NewberyTart with William Steig’s 1983 Newbery Honor book, Doctor De Soto, and discuss why kids love authors with a little bite.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Whit, Sugi, and special guest Jabari Asim reflect on the podcast’s past four years • On Keen On, Leidy Klotz on “subtracting” racism from academia, David Gessner on channeling Thoreau throughout the pandemic, Adrian Wooldridge on the revolt against meritocracy, and Juan Cole on the complexities of Muhammad • On New Books Network, Sarah Gailey talks about cloning and the horror and wonder of self-reflection • On The Common, Ravi Shankar considers the problems (and privilege) of the “model minority” • On Emergence Magazine, listen to Stephen Lezak’s narrated essay about the Arctic—frontier, paradise, marker of human destruction • On The History of Literature, A. Natasha Joukovsky talks Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the myth of Narcissus • On Storybound, Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner read from their new book, The First Ten Years • On Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, Kate Sawyer reads from The Stranding • Reading Women on Palestinian literature, before and after the Nakba • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of My Place at the Table by Alexander Lobrano, Blackout by six bestselling YA authors, Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri, and Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith • In case you missed it: on Just the Right Book, Maria Konnikova discusses what professional poker taught her about the American Dream

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