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  (Please welcome a debut Litkicks piece by Michelle Glauser, who runs her own blog and describes herself as “a Mormon chocolate-lover who studied English at the University of Utah and American Studies at the University of Leipzig in Germany, where I focused on women’s autobiographical writing and wrote a master’s thesis on mommy blogging”. — …
• “Go Sit With Uncle Phil”: My Lifetime With Philip Roth
  I must have been eleven years old when I first snatched a Philip Roth novel from my Mom’s bookshelf. This was after I devoured a ribald paperback called Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent, an illicit sex comedy featuring Jewish New Yorkers in various undignified erotic escapades that my …
• Fitzgerald’s Lost Souls, or the Infernal Gatsby
  If you’re trying to analyze F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age novel The Great Gatsby and you’re not thinking about Dante’s Inferno, you’re missing an obvious connection. The connection is easy to spot and hard to dispute, though it rarely comes up in discussion of the book. I haven’t heard it mentioned at all during the …
• How Baz Lurhmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Surprised Me
  The odds didn’t look good for the new film version of The Great Gatsby this weekend, I thought, as I donned my plastic 3-D glasses and entered the dark theater. I wasn’t expecting to like the movie much at all. I don’t love glitzy Hollywood spectacle, though I was willing to give the much-hyped new …
• A Writer’s Family: Roxana Robinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe
  (We’ve been talking to novelist Roxana Robinson about her unique family history, which includes two celebrated 19th century Americans, Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In this conclusion to the two-part interview, we talk about Harriet Beecher Stowe, about religion in fiction, and about Roxana’s own mission as a writer.) LEVI: It’s true, as …
• Ken Kesey in 2014: Furthur Goes To Brooklyn
  If you’re on the east coast of the USA these days, you might catch a painted bus called Furthur running up and down the seaboard. This colorful vehicle is named after the original Furthur that took novelist Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs and the rest of the Merry Pranksters across the country on a …
• New Short Story Collections: Justin Taylor, Paula Bomer and Hilary Mantel
  I used to read short stories all the time. At one point, I was more into short stories than novels. Well, why not? This was back when Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Tama Janowitz, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Alice Munro and William Trevor were all putting out stuff on a regular basis. It sure …
• My Summer Vacation at Willa Cather Camp
  (Please enjoy this delightful photo essay by Sherri Hoffman Hoye, who has been a friend of Litkicks for many years but has never felt inspired to contribute an article until she made a recent journey to a town called Red Cloud, Nebraska … — Levi) I grew up in rural Iowa. It’s always affirming to …