Three Page-Turners…from Michael Shapiro
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High Museum director Michael Shapiro may own an impressive stack of coffee-table art books, but his true passion is fiction.
He usually has a couple of book reviews he’s cut out of the New Yorker or the New York Times Book Review in his wallet—so that when he passes a bookstore, he knows what to look for once he goes in.
In this segment, he talks with host Steve Goss about a series of novels he couldn’t put down, a novel he hopes one day to finish, and a nonfiction book so plot-driven it reads like fiction.
broadcast version of the segment that aired Monday, April 8, 2013 on Morning Edition
Michael Shapiro’s Picks:
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Patrick Melrose Trilogy by Edward St. Aubyn
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester.
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