Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Alan Cheuse is well known to public radio listeners as the book reviewer for All Things Considered. Now he’s putting his own literary talents on the table with a fictionalized look at the life of photographer Edward Curtis. Kojo talks with Cheuse about Curtis’s legacy as a photographer of Native American life, and about his role as a reviewer and popular interpreter of other novelists’ work.
Guests
- Alan Cheuse Book Reviewer, All Things Considered; Author, "A Trance After Breakfast;" Author, "To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming"
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