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Hilton Als

Special Guest: Hilton Als

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Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about music and film and literature. He is the author of The Women, a memoir about racial and sexual identity. His new book, The Group, about the writer James Baldwin and his devotees, will be published next spring.

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