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Aug. 3, 2023

Celeste Marcus on Barbie

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. She is writing a biography of Chaim Soutine.

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July 30, 2023

Laura Warrell on SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM

LAURA WARRELL is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.…

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July 30, 2023

Lloyd Devereux Richards on STONE MAIDENS

Lloyd Devereux Richards was born in New York City and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Central America before attending law school. He previously served as a senior law clerk for an Indiana Court of Appeals judge, researching and writing drafts for dozens of published opinions, including the appeal of…

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July 29, 2023

David Kamp on NATURE, DESIGN & HEALTH

David Kamp, FASLA, is the founding principal of Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC. His forty-year career involving practice, teaching, writing, and advocacy has been dedicated to promoting health through design with nature. A Harvard Loeb Fellow, MacDowell Colony Fellow, and member of the National Academy of Design, Kamp has been internationally…

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July 29, 2023

Miles Johnson on CHASING SHADOWS

Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the FT. In over a decade working at the FT he has previously held roles as Rome Correspondent, Capital Markets Editor, Investment Editor and Hedge Fund Correspondent in London. He has also reported on the European debt crisis as Madrid Correspondent and on…

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July 29, 2023

Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech

Keith and Andrew do their regular THAT WAS THE WEEK show the about this week's most important news in tech

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July 28, 2023

Bethanne Patrick on her four books of the week

Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times as well as in The…

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July 28, 2023

Prudence Peiffer on THE SLIP

Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Managing Editor of the Creative Team at MoMA, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a SeniorEditor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017,…

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July 28, 2023

Warren Zanes on SPRINGSTEEN

Warren Zanes is the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. As a member of the Del Fuegos, he has shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, and continues to write and record music. Zanes holds a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester and…

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July 28, 2023

Tom Holm on IRA HAYES

Tom Holm is a professor emeritus of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Professor Holm has published over fifty articles, books, pamphlets, government reports, book reviews and essays, editorials, and book chapters. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation with Muskogee Creek ancestry, Holm has served on numerous…

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July 27, 2023

Lena Andrews on VALIANT WOMEN

LENA ANDREWS is a military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. She has a PhD in political science from MIT, specializing in international relations and security studies. She has spent more than a decade in foreign policy, having previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the United States Institute of…

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July 27, 2023

Olivia Rutigliano on Barbie

Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. She is also a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast,…

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July 27, 2023

Ben Purkert on THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED

Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, is forthcoming from Abrams/Overlook in August 2023. His poetry collection, For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), was named one of Adroit’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate,…

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July 26, 2023

Joe Allen on DARK AEON

Joe Allen has written for Chronicles, The Federalist, Human Events, The National Pulse, Parabola, Salvo, and Protocol: The Journal of the Entertainment Technology Industry. He holds a master’s degree from Boston University, where he studied cognitive science and human evolution as they pertain to religion. As an arena rigger, he’s…

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July 25, 2023

Julian Barnes on ELIZABETH FINCH

Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in modern languages (with honours) in 1968.

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July 22, 2023

Bethanne Patrick on her four books of the week

Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times as well as in The…

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July 22, 2023

Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech

Keith and Andrew do their regular THAT WAS THE WEEK show the about this week's most important news in tech

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July 21, 2023

Keggie Carew on BEASTLY

Keggie is the author of DADLAND which won the 2016 COSTA biography award. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie was born in Gibraltar and has lived in West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, Auckland, and London. She now lives in Wiltshire with her husband where they have a small…

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July 21, 2023

Olivia Rutigliano on Oppenheimer

Olivia RutiglianoOlivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. She is also a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The…

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July 21, 2023

Thom Hartmann on THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Thom Hartmann is an award-winning author, international lecturer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His books have been written about in Time magazine, he has been on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and he has been featured as a guest on numerous radio and TV shows, including NPR’s “All Things…

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July 21, 2023

Greg Michell on Oppenheimer

Greg Mitchell’s books include The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The New Press) as well as The Tunnels; The Campaign of the Century, winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Tricky Dick and…

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July 20, 2023

Neil Howe on THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE

Neil Howe is an acclaimed historian, economist, and demographer and the bestselling author (with William Strauss) of The Fourth Turning, as well as over a dozen books on demographic and social change. The nation’s leading thinker on today’s generations—who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s…

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July 20, 2023

Sean Mirski on WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD

Sean A. Mirski is a lawyer and US foreign policy scholar who has worked on national security issues across multiple U.S. presidential administrations. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he currently practices national security, foreign relations, and appellate law at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, and…

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July 20, 2023

Theodore Anton on PROGRAMMABLE PLANET

Ted Anton is professor of English at DePaul University. He is the author of several books and has written for Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Publishers Weekly. His latest book is PROGRAMMABLE PLANET (2023)

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