Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones
Discussed: how to write without sounding like oneself; the unknown self revealed through strangers; the imagined reader; passion and amnesia; family as a human phenomeon; and readings from Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses and Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
This conversation was moderated by Radhika Jones and introduced by Philip Gourevitch.