Interview with Jane Smiley

from Compulsive Reader talks · host Magdalena Ball

Jane Smiley talks about her latest novel Private Life, about historical fiction and genres in general, about the relationship between fiction and memoir, about her characters, the notion of obsession, and the universe in the particular, and much more.

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