Joseph O'Neill on Modern Day New York

Midday on WNYC | Aug 5, 2018

Joseph O’Neill discusses his new book of stories, Good Trouble. From facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, O’Neill offers a close look at his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the pettiness, latent violence, and surprising beauty of quotidian 21st-century existence.

This segment is guest hosted by DW Gibson.

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