Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’

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Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’

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Published on Mar 24, 2022, 12:00:00 AM
Total time: 00:28:32

Episode Description

Writer Tobias Wolff speaks about a dark book that remains loving, Harry Crews 1978 classic “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.” Wolff wrote the foreword to its Penguin Classics re-release, which joins a number of Crews’ works in the series. 

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