Portrait of William Butler Yeats by John Singer Sargent, pencil, 9 x 6 in, 1908

Celebrating W.B. Yeats, Rediscovering Sybille Bedford

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 6, 2015

Two-time Tony-winner Matthew Broderick and National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of “Ireland’s national poet,” William Butler Yeats. Brenda Wineapple joins The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club to discuss Sybille Bedford’s under-appreciated novel, A Legacy. Kevin M. Schultz on the close yet contentious friendship between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer. We take your calls on the on-demand economy.

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