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Title:   The Story of a Marriage
Participants:   Andrew Sean Greer
In conversation with blogger and novelist Mark Sarvas
Program Date:    5/28/2008
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli) looks at the climate of repression in 1950s America and asks how far we are willing to go to escape that which confines us.


Participant(s) Bio

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of How It Was for Me, a collection of short stories and three novels, including The Path of Minor Planets and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, came out in 2004. John Updike first put this novel on the literary map when, in the pages of The New Yorker, he called it "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov." He is the recipient of the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library.

www.andrewgreer.com

Mark Sarvas is best known as the host of the popular and controversial literary weblog The Elegant Variation, a Guardian Top 10 Literary Blog. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Truthdig, The Modern Word, Boldtype and the Los Angeles Review, and he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

marksarvas.blogs.com


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