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.

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