Becoming a Londoner David Plante

David Plante on Becoming a Londoner

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 23, 2013

David Plante discusses his memoir, Becoming a Londoner: A Diary. This first volume spans his first 20 years in London, beginning in the mid-1960s, and pieces together an intimate portrait of a relationship and a luminous world of writers, poets, artists, and thinkers.

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