10/01/2010
Mariella Frostrup's guests include American writer Edmund White. He talks about his most recent collection of fiction, Chaos, and his new memoir City Boy.
Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist and biographer Edmund White about two new books: his collection of short fiction, Chaos, and City Boy, a memoir of his life in New York in the 1960s and 70s. He talks about his attitude to mortality, and remembers coming of age as a gay writer at the time of the Stonewall riots.
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Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist and biographer Edmund White about his collection of short fiction Chaos, and City Boy a memoir of his life in New York in the 1960s and 70s.
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- Sun 10 Jan 2010 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Thu 14 Jan 2010 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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