CLSC: 'The Gifted School'
Rebuilding Public Education • 06-Aug-2020
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 6, 2020.
Bruce Holsinger presents his book The Gifted School, a fiction novel set in Crystal, Colorado centered around drama within a community.
Holsinger is a novelist and literary scholar based in Charlottesville, Va., and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of two previous novels: A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire.
This program is made possible by The Bess Sheppard Morrison CLSC 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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