The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

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Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. He is also co-founder of the acclaimed Miami Book Fair. If you love books, writers or are a passionate reader, this podcast is for you. Enter The Literary Life where every Friday you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests.

Recent Episodes
  • Introducing The Lit Hub Podcast
    Sep 13, 2024 – 01:01
  • Chef Eric Ripert
    Feb 23, 2024 – 48:23
  • John Grisham on Good Fiction and Big Issues
    Nov 3, 2023 – 45:08
  • Lauren Groff on Writing Her Own Robinson Crusoe
    Oct 20, 2023 – 43:52
  • Nathan Hill on Music, Marriage, and His New Novel WELLNESS
    Sep 29, 2023 – 46:50
  • Kai Bird: Telling the Story of Robert Oppenheimer
    Sep 8, 2023 – 36:55
  • Dean Koontz on His Life and His Work
    Aug 18, 2023 – 46:55
  • Campbell McGrath: Reading Poetry Aloud
    Aug 4, 2023 – 41:38
  • Marc Schulz: The Secret to Living a Happy Life
    Jul 14, 2023 – 48:45
  • Chasten Buttigieg: Imagining a Brighter Future
    Jun 23, 2023 – 54:03
  • Anne Berest: Exploring History in The Postcard
    Jun 9, 2023 – 44:05
  • Ana Veciana-Suarez: You Can't Wait for Inspiration, You've Got to Write
    May 26, 2023 – 48:03
  • Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology
    May 12, 2023 – 50:35
  • David Grann: diving into history, the trials of a sea voyage, and sailing the Gulf of Pain
    Apr 28, 2023 – 47:17
  • Pattie Boyd: Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania
    Apr 14, 2023 – 31:13
  • Shelley Read: Writing With a Deep Sense of Place
    Mar 24, 2023 – 32:19
  • The Literary Life: In Conversation with the 2022 NBF 5 Under 35 Honorees
    Mar 17, 2023 – 49:16
  • Alisha Fernandez Miranda: What If You Could Explore the What If Jobs of Your Dreams?
    Feb 17, 2023 – 38:01
  • Patricia Engel: How Does It Feel Different to Develop a Voice For a Story Versus a Novel?
    Feb 10, 2023 – 40:23
  • Tracy Kidder on How One Doctor Brought Healing to the Homeless
    Feb 3, 2023 – 36:37
  • Emma Straub on Being Present, No Matter Where You Are
    Jan 27, 2023 – 42:38
  • Quentin Tarantino on How He Never Intended to Write a Book of Film History
    Dec 2, 2022 – 38:48
  • Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires
    Nov 4, 2022 – 41:21
  • David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe
    Oct 21, 2022 – 39:16
  • Cory Doctorow: Why Our Current Tech Monopolies Is All Thanks to Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork
    Oct 14, 2022 – 01:03:46
  • Ibram X. Kendi on Why Our Children Need to Be Told the Stories of Slavery and Colonialism
    Sep 30, 2022 – 59:39
  • Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection
    Sep 23, 2022 – 47:05
  • Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Own Community
    Sep 16, 2022 – 38:31
  • Javier Zamora: You Can't Simply Make Art From Your Trauma to Heal Yourself
    Sep 9, 2022 – 44:59
  • Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels
    Aug 13, 2022 – 41:53
  • Monique Roffey: How to Write About Colonialism Without Talking About Colonialism
    Aug 5, 2022 – 29:27
  • Blitz Bazawule on Why Crop Rotation Is The Perfect Metaphor For the Creative Mind
    Jul 22, 2022 – 51:44
  • How Frank O'Hara Brought a Father and Daughter Closer Together
    Jul 15, 2022 – 40:15
  • Geraldine Brooks on the Beauty of Implausible Truth
    Jul 8, 2022 – 32:53
  • Ottessa Moshfegh: Why Do I Write About Such Darkness?
    Jul 1, 2022 – 56:24
  • Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling
    Jun 24, 2022 – 52:06
  • Hernan Diaz: Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?
    Jun 17, 2022 – 37:00
  • Alexander Maksik No Longer Condemns Metafictional Novels
    Jun 6, 2022 – 47:12
  • Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism
    May 27, 2022 – 50:59
  • Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future
    May 20, 2022 – 39:01
  • Peter Balakian on How the Transmission of Trauma Across Generations Informs His Poetry
    May 14, 2022 – 46:41
  • Douglas Stuart on the Strangeness of Sharing Your Own Grief and Loss in Fiction
    May 6, 2022 – 01:04:45
  • What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?
    Apr 29, 2022 – 42:15
  • What's Happening With the Literary Community in Ukraine?
    Apr 15, 2022 – 48:10
  • Diana Abu-Jaber on How Life Begins Each Time You Find a New Place
    Mar 18, 2022 – 34:39
  • Dr. Olha Poliukhovych and Askold Melnyczuk on the War in Ukraine
    Mar 4, 2022 – 47:08
  • What Are You Blurbing, Deesha Philyaw?
    Feb 18, 2022 – 01:01:57
  • Julie Otsuka on Writing Her Most Personal Story
    Feb 11, 2022 – 38:17
  • Elisa New and Richard Blanco on the Diversity of American Poetry
    Feb 4, 2022 – 35:18
  • Anjanette Delgado, Yaddyra Peralta, and Mia Leonin on the Literature of Uprootedness
    Jan 28, 2022 – 45:51
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