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For nearly two decades, Taylor Swift has gifted us with music for every moment and feeling. There’s the heartbreak and angst she’s most famous for, but true Swifties also know the joy, ambition, wisdom, rage, sincerity, humor, obsession, growth, sense of possibility, and resilience throughout her ten-album discography (not to mention the re-records with tracks from the vault). A truly magical...

Harry Smith grudgingly realized that Lionel Ziprin might be right: there was only so long that he could get by sleeping on peoples sofas, cadging meals, and stashing his records, books, films, and paintings wherever he could. The records he shipped from California were his only liquid asset, something he was sure he could sell, but selling them was a slow process, and he hated the idea of his...

Emergence Magazine is an online publication with annual print edition exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the Earth, we look to emerging stories. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, narrated essays, stories and more. Histories are...

This conversation is presented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival, a four-day celebration of the art of adaptation and hosted by Iowa Citys nonprofit cinema, FilmScene. The 2nd annual Refocus Film Festival will take place in Iowa City October 12-15, 2023.Passes are on sale now, with individual tickets and full festival announcements coming in September. * Spanning nearly 600 pages and...

London, April 1977 When I turn up at the offices of Arista Records to interview Lou Reed for the first time, Im taken aside and told quite firmly that certain questions I may have for Lou are off-limits. Im particularly discouraged from asking, for instance, anything about The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Andy Warhol, the much-lambasted Berlin album and just about anything else of conspicuous...

Emergence Magazine is an online publication with annual print edition exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the Earth, we look to emerging stories. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, narrated essays, stories and more. In this audio...

The modern history of Egypt is told, by insiders and outsiders alike, largely through the narrative of authoritarian leaders and their so-called iron-fisted rule. Gamal Abdel Nasser (19561970) was well known for his method of having people disappearedbehind the sun is the Arabic refrainif they disagreed with his socialist, nationalist policies, as well as for his persecution of Egypts Jews. And...

July 10, 2023, 3:18pm This fall, hundreds of books owned by Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go up for auction at legendary London auction house Christie’s. In case you didn’t know (I didn’t), Watts, who died in 2021 at the age of 80, was a devoted bibliophile and collector; Christie’s describes the cache, which includes rare editions of books by George Orwell, James Joyce, Virginia...

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the worlds leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Aisha Harris, author of Wannabe, about the pop culture that shaped both her and her generation. Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hubs...

Being a writer, being able to create characters and tap into human feelings and ways of processing things often goes hand in hand with feeling worthless. Feeling that I’m not as good as the writers I admire, feeling that I’m not writing enough, feeling that I’m wasting time on the wrong project when I should be writing about something else. My first novel, A Little Hope, had come out in 2021, and...