Susan Straight

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Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside

Susan Straight on KCRW

Author Susan Straight’s latest project, 1,001 Novels: A Library of America, was her attempt to find the “real” U.S., far from the blue and red states of TV news.

Mapping USA via novels, not left and right politics

Author Susan Straight’s latest project, 1,001 Novels: A Library of America, was her attempt to find the “real” U.S., far from the blue and red states of TV news.

from Greater LA

Author Susan Straight spent her whole life in Riverside, where she raised her three daughters.

A multi-generational story of women who created family and history in Riverside

Author Susan Straight spent her whole life in Riverside, where she raised her three daughters.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room

from Bookworm

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