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Nicole Mones and Sue William Silverman
Nicole Nelson speaks with Nicole Mones, about her new novel Night in Shanghai, and about research, incorporating history in fiction, and the importance of living a full life as a writer. During the second half, memoirist Sue William Silverman, discusses her third memoir The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, sharing how she, through digging deep, found the metaphor for her identity search.
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(Broadcast date: March 12, 2014)