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‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ Revisited with Alvin Hall

It’s Memorial Day, and we’re looking back at some of our favorite Takeaway conversations from the last year.   We spoke with Alvin Hall  in March, shortly after he had completed a five part series for our partner the BBC called “Alvin Hall in the Bonfire of the Vanities.”  Twenty-five years ago, in 1997, the novel “The Bonfire […]

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