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| Conversation: Michael Cunningham & Janna Levin |
December 20, 2007 | New York City
With: Michael Cunningham and Janna Levin
Michael Cunningham is the author of A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, and The Hours,
for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the
PEN/Faulkner Award. Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy
at Barnard College of Columbia University and the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, for which she won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for debut fiction.
Discussed:
the hormonal castration of an English war hero; cocktail neurosis; the
deleted character from The Hours; the correlation between levels of
social awkwardness and contributions to humanity; dumping a book after
writing 100 pages; The Road; irritating questions; the limitations of 1st person narratives; being an optimist; Michiko Kakutani’s funeral.
Also included: readings from The Hours and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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• Entire conversation (1:02:48)
• Michael Cunningham reading from The Hours (3:18)
• Janna Levin reading from A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (4:20)
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