Deciding the Post-War Fiction Canon

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Reading and Tests (89106) Motoko Rich, cultural reporter for the New York Times,, looks at how low reading rates among students will bring test scores down.
Then, Maura Spiegel, associate professor at Columbia and Barnard and Ross Posnock, professor of American Literature at Columbia University and author of Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity discuss the choices they make when choosing books for their students.

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