Bookworm
Jane Smiley
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Knopf) Two novel-lovers share their deep passions for reading. Jane loves the realists; Michael the Bookworm loves the inventors. But more than anything, they love "a lengthy written narrative with a protagonist" the novel.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenThirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
(Knopf)
Join us for an informal conversation in which two novel-lovers share their deep passions for reading. Jane loves the realists (Austen, Trollope); Michael the Bookworm loves the inventors (Kafka, Cervantes). But more than anything, they love "a lengthy written narrative with a protagonist" the novel. Read an
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.
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