Artist and author Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and VV Ganesanthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Semitic principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort was part of the organization, discusses researching and writing about new York Times best selling book, Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story
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Let’s be honest about something: The fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to complete your novel. Writing is hard because your human brain, which has been running and updating biological human survival software for about 200,000 years,
According to Henry Louis Gates Jr., if there was a Harlem Renaissance, “as surely as it was gay as it was black,” it was also disabled. Steeped in a nascent black disability culture characterized by a rejection of eugenics, medical segregation, and the ableist politics of racial respectability, writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora
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My first experience with AI image description was both mundane and profound. I was lying in bed in my East Village sublet, writing and drinking afternoon coffee — “prousting,” as I and my partner Alabaster call it — when a new app popped up in my inbox. I downloaded it and took a picture of
The best of literary internet Today: In 1886, Hella Vuolijoki is born. Why is writing alternative text image descriptions a task of literary translation? | Lit Hub Technology April Davila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to overcome it). | Lit Hub Craft How Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and
In conversation with Merv Emre on The Critic and Her Publics Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merv Emre talks to professional interviewers of all types about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good question, how do you
Before the first Molotov cocktail reached us, before the mob arrived with knives, machetes and wooden sticks, it was a big rock that invaded our lunch table. It passed near my left ear and bounced onto our table, scattering food everywhere and hitting the glass window of the restaurant in front of me. It happened
It is difficult to underestimate the enthusiasm of French intellectuals for Marxist theory in the 1950s and 60s. If Sartre was the most important living philosopher, Marx was the most important dead philosopher. And the École Normale, an institution full of youth “overeducated in the art of interpretation”, as Derrida put it, was a central