Jonathan Franzen: On Page-Turners and Big Ideas
This past Saturday, Literary Hub attended a conversation between literary critic Wyatt Mason and the writer Jonathan Franzen, hosted by Greenlight Bookstore. To begin, Franzen read three passages from...
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A Phone Call From Paul: Claudia Rankine
A few months ago, Paul Holdengraber managed to track down Claudia Rankine in the far northern reaches of Ithaca, NY, where she was attending some kind of summer camp for artists and writers. In part...
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How to Make Readings Not Boring
Over the last decade Lit Crawl—which started in San Francisco—has expanded to nine cities, with more added each year. Essentially an act of literary bar-hopping, the Lit Crawls have become bookish...
View ArticleA Phone Call From Paul: Claudia Rankine, Part II
In part two of Paul’s conversation with Claudia Rankine (that took place at the end of summer) she discusses her book, Citizen, getting pulled from a security line at Heathrow Airport, and the power...
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A Phone Call From Paul: Ben Lerner
Just before writer, poet (and Topekan) Ben Lerner was officially declared a genius, our Paul Holdengraber was able to catch him on the phone in between late-night bottle feeds and not writing poems...
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A Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next 10 days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleAnthony Marra Interviews @Guy-In-Your-MFA, Genius Ensues
If you’ve spent time on Twitter, you’ve probably come across @GuyInYourMFA, a satiric account run by the comedian Dana Schwartz. For those who haven’t, imagine if Stephen Colbert had skewered a young...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next nine days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next eight days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next seven days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next six days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
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A Phone Call From Paul: Ben Lerner, Part II
In the first half of Paul Holdengraber’s conversation with newish genius Ben Lerner, the two chatted amiably about sleep-deprivation, fatherhood, the avant-garde, and a dog named Bartleby. In this...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next five days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleTracy K. Smith Talks to Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo’s book of poetry, Digest, won the Pulitzer Prize last year. Tracy K. Smith’s memoir, Ordinary Light, has been shortlisted for this year’s National Book Award for non-fiction. Here, the...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next four days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next three days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
For the next two days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda...
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Donna Tartt’s Typewritten Valedictorian Speech
Donna Tartt’s literary stardom began with 1992’s The Secret History, a literary murder mystery of sorts set at the fictional Hampden College, a rough stand-in for Vermont’s Bennington College, where...
View ArticleA Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest
Literary Hub is counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda McKeon. Empty Space Poem,...
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Self-Loathing and the Art of Working
Elizabeth Gilbert—whose most recent book is called Big Magic—takes time out from a brief vacation in Miami Beach to talk to Paul Holdengraber for episode seven of A Phone Call From Paul. Things get...
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