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Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC; Philip Glass; the Buffetts on Ending Hunger

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 22, 2013

Writers Ruth Curry and Emma Straub, who live in New York, and Meghan Daum and Sari Botton, who’ve moved out of the city, talk about Joan Didion’s famous essay Goodbye to All That and share their own stories of loving and leaving New York. Composer Philip Glass discusses “In the Spirit,” a benefit concert for the Garrison Institute. Warren Buffett and his son Howard G. Buffett  and grandson Howard W. Buffett talk about philanthropy and their work to end world hunger.

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