Episode 6: Two Writers and a Rock Star Onstage

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Recorded27 Nov 2015

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Two interviews recorded live at the 2015 New Yorker Festival: Patti Smith talks with David Remnick about how her writing and music are intertwined, with a live performance of “Because the Night”; the fiction writers Jonathan Safran Foer and George Saunders interview each other.

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