Pessl, Playscripts, Christenberry
Kurt Andersen talks with Marisha Pessl about why her debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics is worth all the hype. Singer Vashti Bunyan tells us why she took a 30 year retreat from the music business. And the artist William Christenberry tells Kurt why he photographs the slowly morphing landscape of rural Alabama year after year.
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