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Title:   The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Participants:   Laura Miller
In conversation with David L. Ulin, Book Editor, LA Times
Program Date:    12/10/2008
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

Miller, book critic and co-founder of salon.com, fell in love with the Narnia books as a child. In this intellectual adventure story, she returns to Lewis' classic fantasies to see what mysteries Narnia still holds for adult eyes.


Participant(s) Bio

Laura Miller is founder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, and other publications. She lives in New York.

David L. Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."


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