Three Critics

Fishko Files | Apr 28, 2016

Recently some venerable cultural critics have been collecting their thoughts into books. WNYC’s Sara Fishko opens them all in this edition of Fishko Files.

 

WNYC Production Credits...

Executive Producer: Sara Fishko
Mix Engineer: Wayne Shulmister
Managing Editor, WNYC News: Karen Frillmann

 

Books:

A.O. Scott

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth

Penguin Press

 

 

Ben Ratliff

Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

 

David Denby

Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives

Henry Holt and Co.

 

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