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Stephen Schiff on the Influence of Awards

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and screenwriter Stephen Schiff talk about how awards influence American culture. Schiff is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a screenwriter who has adapted Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, as well as Deep End of the Ocean. He was Critic-at-Large at Vanity Fair and the film critic of Fresh Air on public radio. […]

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