A Revolutionary Novelist

ABC National Radio, The Book Show (Australia), 1/29/2009, featuring Stewart O’Nan and Blake Bailey:

Sometimes it takes a Hollywood blockbuster to bring an American masterpiece back into print. That’s exactly what happened with Revolutionary Road, the 1961 work of troubled writer Richard Yates. The novel may have been critically acclaimed at the time, but had it not been for this year’s movie adaptation, most of us would never have heard of it.

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Talk: Last Night at the Lobster @ North Country Public Radio

From North Country Public Radio:

This recent novel from Stewart O’Nan, who has been called the “bard of the working class,” takes us into the lives of people who work at a restaurant that is going out of business. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson, along with the Massena Book Club, talk to the author in this special on-the-road season, live from Massena Public Library.

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