Scott Sommer

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Novelist Scott Sommer discusses and reads from his 1981 short-story collection, Lifetime, which, according to host Walter James Miller, exemplifies the author's "commitment to the contemporary social problem," and evokes the work of American realists like John Steinbeck.

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