Marilynne Robinson

award-winning novelist

Guest

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award-winner for Fiction (Lila), 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for Gilead and 2008 National Book Award finalist for Home

Marilynne Robinson on KCRW

Close friend of Michael Silverblatt’s and Bookworm editor for 30 years, Alan Howard guest hosts this episode on grief and loss.

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Prolific author Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney's, co-founder of 826 National, and other significant projects, first met Micheal Silverblatt in 2000, upon the publication of his…

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