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.

 

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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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