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Jennifer Egan and Isabel Wilkerson

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In another special pre-recorded Memorial Day show, Michael Krasny talks with this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award winners Jennifer Egan and Isabel Wilkerson in two half-hour segments about their respective works.

Egan discusses her book, “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” and Wilkerson describes “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration.”

Guests:

Jennifer Egan, author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "A Visit From the Goon Squad"

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration"

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