Frank McCourt on Longing
Before a live audience at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York, Kurt Andersen and writer Frank McCourt talk about the art of longing.
McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize for Angela’s Ashes, about his impoverished childhood in Ireland. He taught high school English for over forty years in the New York City public schools and is currently at work on a book about teaching.
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