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From the Walls of The New School to The MET: Revisiting Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today
by Vicky Oliver, Nonfiction Editor
photo by the author
Thomas Hart Benton’s ten-panel mural, painted with egg tempera and oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior. Originally painted in 1930-1931 for the New School, America Today now resides at the MET.At the New School, we write stories. Whether we are setting down our pasts or conjuring a future world or are just trying to capture what is happening right now in the present,
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New! LIT Monthly Writing Prompt: April Edition
Happy poetry month everyone!
Here at LIT we are starting a new series of monthly writing prompts. This month’s prompt is from our nonfiction editor Vicky Oliver:
Write about a time when you were lost and how you found your way home.
The hero’s journey is sometimes a parable on the transformation of being: old habits and emotional reactions that are shed out of necessity as they become stumbling blocks to the journey. The old ways are replaced by new strengths or new ideas that have been germinating out of sight, waiting to come into play as fresh discoveries in a moment of crisis,
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LIT 36, Spring 2024
Featuring an interview with Lucy Sante on her new memoir I Heard Her Call My Name, an interview with Claire Donato and fiction from her recently published collection Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts!, and an interview with MFA ’21 Vanessa Chan on her debut novel The Storm We Made; nonfiction from Zia Jaffrey, Tony Wallin-Sato, and Katiy Heath, hybrid nonfiction poetry from Alexa Luborsky, and Georgia San-Li, poetry from Nathan Erwin, and Jae Eason, and art by MFA ’24 Aditi Bhattacharjee.
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LIT 35, Fall 2023
Featuring an interview with Hannah V. Sawyerr (’22), nonfiction by Clare Cannon (’22), fiction by Drew Anderla (’15), hybrid by Elinora Westfall, poetry by Philip Jason, and art by Juan José Clemente.
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LIT at NYC PoFest 2023
Come join LIT and The New School at The Blackbird stage July 29th at 12pm for New York Poetry Society’s annual Poetry Festival weekend on Governor’s Island and catch our featured readers: John Goode: LIT 33; Yael Hacohen: LIT 34; Elaine Johanson: LIT 34. Our own Poetry editors, Rebecca Endres and Richard Berwind will MC. While you’re there, drop by The New School table to say hi and pick up a complimentary LIT back issue.
For a schedule of Headliners and the goings-on of the day,
