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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH)
Description: Whatâs the truth and whatâs a lie? Whatâs a memoir, whatâs a novel, and what if both are just a series of âprose blocksâ? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and her second novel, Liars, is forthcoming. Tess and Sarah discuss how the threshold between truth and fiction is often used to minimize writing by women and how char...