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Book review: My Wars Are Laid Away In Books

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews My Wars Are Laid Away In Books (Random House), the new biography of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger.

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Other segments from the episode on October 29, 2001

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 29, 2001: Interview with Hanif Kurieshi; Interview with Garth Fagan; Review of Alfred Habegger's new book “My Wars Are Laid Away In Books.”
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Author Hanif Kureishi

Author Hanif Kureishi's new novel is Gabriel Gift, (Scribner) about a 15-year-old boy and his struggles with his artistic soul and restless parents. Simultaneously two of Kureishi works are coming out in a combined paperback edition: Intimacy: A Novel and Midnight All Day: Stories. (Scribner). Intimacy has been adapted to film. Several of Kureishi earlier novels, My Beautiful Laundrette, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, were also made into films.

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Dancer Garth Fagan

Garth Fagan is the Tony Award winning choreographer of Broadway The Lion King. He is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed group Garth Fagan Dance. Fagan is a Distinguished University Professor of the State University of New York. He won many awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim.

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