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Interviews with essayists and editors about essays and literary journals. Hosted by Dan Hill, PhD.
"The Threepenny Review": A Discussion with Wendy Lesser
Great New American Essays
33 minutes
1 year ago
"The Threepenny Review": A Discussion with Wendy Lesser
Today’s spotlight is on the literary magazine The Threepenny Review. I’m joined by the magazine’s founding and current Editor, Wendy Lesser.
Wendy Lesser is the author of twelve nonfiction books and one novel; her latest book, entitled Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery, came out from Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2020. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and many other institutions, and she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Her journalistic writing about literature, dance, film, and music has appeared in a number of periodicals in America and abroad. Born in California and educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and UC Berkeley, Lesser now divides her time between Berkeley and New York.
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Great New American Essays
Interviews with essayists and editors about essays and literary journals. Hosted by Dan Hill, PhD.