Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: Kaitlyn Greenidge on Stories of Black Love

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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 19, 2021

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Kaitlyn Greenidge on Stories of Black Love

Kaitlyn Greenidge joins Mychal Denzel Smith to talk about the 1982 film Cane River and how stories of Black love have been around for decades—and undervalued for just as long.

BOOK DREAMS

How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text, from Jane Eyre to Twilight

Vanessa Zoltan explains what drew her to divinity school despite being a devout atheist, and how her education led her to find sacred engagement in her favorite secular books.

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BIG TABLE

Mariella Guzzoni on Van Gogh’s Love of Literature

Italian curator Mariella Guzzoni unpacks her year’s long research into the books that Vincent Van Gogh read throughout his life and how they influenced his artwork, letters, and life’s purpose.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On Otherppl, Sam Cohen talks about creating a conceit of Sarahs · On NewberyTart, Marcy and Jennie discuss Robin McKinley and other favorite children’s book authors · On New Books Network, Gautam Bhatia on the innate human desire to know more · On The Common, Emma Sloley on exploring fear and violence in intimate relationships · On The History of Literature, the story of Constance Fenimore Woolson’s rediscovered tale “Miss Grief” · On Reading Women, a conversation about climate grief and Indigenous land and water stewardship · On The Literary Salon, Defne Suman reads from her novel The Silence of Scheherazade · Beyond the Mic explores the audiobooks of World Travel by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever, Seven Days in June by Tia Williams, Battle Royal by Lucy Parker, The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He, and Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia

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