Susan Minot

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Guest Picks: Susan Minot

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Susan Minot was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about her latest novel, Thirty Girls. She also told us that she's a fan of popcorn. Find out what else she's a fan of! 

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Thirty Girls, a New Novel by Susan Minot

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Susan Minot talks about her new novel, Thirty Girls, about two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to find meaning from events that test them. Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army who struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships.

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Novelists Susan and Eliza Minot on Creative Siblings

Saturday, December 15, 2001

Kurt Andersen talks with novelists Susan and Eliza Minot about the complicated and harmonious connections between siblings in music, poetry, and film.

The sisters grew up in New England in a family with seven children. Susan, who lives in Maine, is the author of EveningLust and Other StoriesFolly, and Monkeys and wrote the screenplay ...

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Siblings, Yeats, Quark

Saturday, December 15, 2001

We look at sibling rivalry and inspiration — the art that springs from the closeness and fierce conflicts among families. Kurt Andersen’s guests are the novelists (and sisters) Susan and Eliza Minot. We wonder if there's a unique harmony to siblings who sing together. Poet Galway Kinnell tells how Yeats' ...

Novelists Susan and Eliza Minot on Creative Siblings

Saturday, April 14, 2001

Kurt Andersen talks with novelists Susan and Eliza Minot about the complicated and harmonious connections between siblings in music, poetry, and film.

The sisters grew up in New England in a family with seven children. Susan, who lives in Maine, is the author of Evening, Lust and Other Stories, Folly, and ...

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Siblings, Conductors, 1040

Saturday, April 14, 2001

Kurt Andersen talks with novelists Susan and Eliza Minot about the complicated and harmonious connections between siblings in music, poetry, and film.

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