You Don’t Know Lit

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (2024)

The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist (1944)

The Dwarf is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel. The main setting is a fictionalized version of Milan. The character Bernardo of the novel is a fictionalized version of Leonardo da Vinci, who served as a court artist and military architect in Milan from 1482 to 1499. The novel depicts the Italian Renaissance through the eyes of a misanthropic assassin.

Locke & Key written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (2008)

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (2019) VS So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (2015)

Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books by Richard Bradford (2014) VS Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland  by Patrick Radden Keefe (2019) 

Basking in our 200th episode for one more week as we take this week off. Throwing it back to our first episode with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) VS The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937).

We're joined by William Fliss - Marquette University's Tolkien Archivist and co-curator for the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus. Marquette owns the manuscripts for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham, and Mr. Bliss as well as research collections totaling over 11,000 pages.

The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel by MacKenzie Scott (2005) VS Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton (1992)

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)