Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: Phoebe Robinson Has Thoughts About Those Anti-Racist Reading Lists

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FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 21, 2021

THE MARIS REVIEW

Phoebe Robinson on Her New Imprint and Anti-Racism Reading Lists

Phoebe Robinson joins Maris Kreizman to talk about the publishing industry’s pitfalls and her new essay collection.

THRESHOLDS

Bad Seed Warren Ellis on the Spirituality of Music and Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum

Host Jordan Kisner sits down with Warren Ellis, musician and author of Nina Simone’s Gum, to chat about where Warren’s new book came from and how he learned to write it.

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FICTION/NON/FICTION

The Country Roads Ahead: Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

Novelist Julia Elliott and poet and writer DaMaris B. Hill join Fiction/Non/Fiction to consider the writing and face of rural America—particularly as it might look 30 years from now.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On Lit Century, how photography shaped Wright Morris’s fiction • On The Quarantine Tapes, Forrest Gander on grief, translation, and sharing joy, and Derecka Purnell on abolition and the pursuit of freedom  • On The Literary Life, Lauren Groff talks about exploring the many meanings of “matrix” • On Micro, listen to spooky flash fiction from Nick Olson, Noa Covo, and Tyler Barton • On Otherppl, how Catherine Raven befriended a wild fox • On Emergence Magazine, a narrated essay by Catherine Bush about reciprocity, care, and ecological loss • The History of Literature considers the seduction of mysteries • On New Books Network, Beth Alvarado on writing about the borderlands • On The Literary Salon, Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström reads from In Every Mirror She’s Black • Reading Women considers the emotional complexities of women’s crime fiction • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, April in Spain by John Banville, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón, Talk to Me by T.C. Boyle, and Taste by Stanley Tucci • Catch up on The Iliad with Book 11 and Book 12, on Audiobook Break

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