Blake Bailey & D. T. Max discuss Charles Jackson

Biographer Blake Bailey wrote a thoughtful, meticulously drawn portrait of John Cheever in his acclaimed Cheever: A life. Now, with the book Life in Farther & Wilder, Blake Bailey dives into the compelling, complicated life of author Charles Jackson, best known for his bestselling book The Lost Weekend.
Blake Bailey is joined by biographer/New Yorker writer D. T. Max, author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, and the two chat about the art of biography and the intriguing lives of Charles Jackson and David Foster Wallace.
Highlights from this conversation are featured in Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore (W. W. Norton, 2016). Learn more: goo.gl/YXWCfU.
March 21, 2013

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[@BNardolilli]

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