CLSC: "In the Country of Women"
Women's History Month • 30-Jul-2020
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, 2020.
Susan Straight details her book "In The Country of Women," which features a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women.
Straight has published eight novels. She was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Magazine Award. She is the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
This program is made possible by The Caroline Roberts Barnum and Julianne Barnum Follansbee Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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