Where Life And Literature Meet

Midday on WNYC | Dec 27, 2017

Award-winning novelist Kathleen Hill talks about her memoir She Read to Us in The Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels. She explores defining moments of a life illuminated by novels. She connects the stories and characters from literature to turning points in her life -- from reading Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to her students in a newly-independent Nigeria, to reading Madame Bovary in a town in northern France. 

This is a rebroadcast of a segment guest hosted by Mary Harris. 

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