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A Daughter Remembers Her Famous Father

Musa Mayer's memoir explores her relationship with her father, painter Philip Guston. Mayer and Guston were close; she says she was his confident. But Mayer didn't really know who he was as a person until she interviewed family members after Gunston's death.

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Other segments from the episode on October 4, 1988

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 4, 1988: Interview with Anna Quindlen; Commentary on Chuck Willis; Interview with Musa Mayer; Review of Jonathan Spence's novel "The Question of Hu."

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