In the second half of this two-part interview, Edmund White traces Jean Genet's fiction-writing career from the artistic aspirations of Forgetting Elena to the sexual politics of The Beautiful Room is Empty. (Part I)
Edmund White
Edmund White: Jean Genet (Part II)
The author traces his fiction-writing career from the artistic aspirations of Forgetting Elena to the sexual politics of The Beautiful Room is Empty.
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Guests:
Edmund White, novelist and short-story author
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