Author Meets the Critics
A Guide to Confident Living
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Author Meets the Critics brings writers before a panel of critics for a lively discussion of books and ideas. The program centers on the exchange between an author, who can explain the work and its intentions, and reviewers who question, assess, and debate it.
Listeners hear a conversational forum rather than a dramatic story: the interest lies in the differing perspectives, the author’s responses, and the way a book’s themes and arguments are examined in public. The episode title, A Guide to Confident Living, points to the work under discussion.
The result is an engaging snapshot of literary conversation, where informed disagreement and direct questions give listeners a chance to consider a book from more than one point of view.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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