Marilynne Robinson reading, Live From Prairie Lights, November 3, 2008

Robinson, Marilynne

Englander, Julie
Willard, Derek Hunt

WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)
Prairie Lights (Iowa City, Iowa)

WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)

University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson reads from "Home," the companion to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gilead." She is introduced by Derek Willard. "Home," which is a finalist for the National Book Award, portrays other characters in the Iowa town of Gilead. Bob Thompson wrote in the Washington Post, "Set in precisely the same time and locale as 'Gilead,' it revisits characters the author found herself unwilling to give up. Yet it is not a sequel. With different people's stories moved to center stage, 'Home' manages to be both intertwined with its predecessor and a work that stands alone." "Gilead," also won the Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her first novel, "Housekeeping," was a Pulitzer finalist two decades ago, when it won the PEN/Hemingway Award. In the intervening years she wrote two nonfiction books, "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."

Live From Prairie Lights was a live public radio program broadcast from Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The program showcased new and established writers from around the world.

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