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Robert Coover Revives a Fictional Cult With 'The Brunist Day of Wrath'

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 (Courtesy Robert Coover)

Award-winning novelist Robert Coover is back with “The Brunist Day of Wrath,” the long-awaited sequel to his 1966 classic, “The Origin of the Brunists,” about a man who survives a coal mine explosion and starts an end-of-the-world cult. Coover joins us to discuss the novel and his writing career so far.

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Robert Coover, author and professor emeritus of Literary Arts at Brown University

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