Writer to Writer: Karen Joy Fowler and Lee Kravetz on Art and Life

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

English - September 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Karen Joy Fowler, Lee Kravetz

Two novelists channel the worlds and minds of two mythologized historic figures. With “Booth,” Karen Joy Fowler (“The Jane Austen Book Club,” “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”), conjures the origins of a villain who changed America’s trajectory: John Wilkes Booth. Lee Kravetz’s “The Last Confessions of Sylvia P” reimagines a chapter in the life of poet Sylvia Plath, through three perspectives.