This is a rebroadcast of an interview that previously aired on September 29th, 2014. 

Drama critic John Lahr discusses the life and work of Tennessee Williams, one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. Lahr’s new biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. The book was just nominated for the longlist for nonfiction for this year's National Book Awards.

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