![]() ![]() Greer, could you share with us how you got familiar with all these cultures and languages in order to write about them so convincingly and avoid stereotypes? ![]() One of the many things I admire about this book are all the travels of Arthur Less. Jeffrey Brown: All right, we have got questions from readers. It's the last thing Arthur would have expected, for sure. Jeffrey Brown: It's also kind of funny to think about a novel about a novelist who can't really accomplish much of anything wins a Pulitzer Prize.Īndrew Sean Greer: It's the irony of the whole thing. Jeffrey Brown: Must be a nice surprise, huh?Īndrew Sean Greer: It was quite a surprise. And also congratulations on the Pulitzer.Īndrew Sean Greer: Thank you, thank you for having me here. It's a vain and very comic attempt to escape everything, told in the new novel called "Less," winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize and our June book club pick.Īrthur Andrew Sean Greer joins me now to answer questions from you, our readers.Īnd welcome. What to do? Well, flee to anyone who will have him at obscure literary events around the world. Jeffrey Brown: Arthur Less is a minor novelist about to turn 50 and about to see his younger lover marry someone else. Jeffrey Brown talks with this month's author and announces our pick for July. ![]() That's our special book club in partnership with The New York Times that many of you have joined. Amna Nawaz: And finally tonight, we close out with our monthly segment Now Read This. ![]()
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