Sep 5, 2013
On this episode there are two guests, brothers, an
experiment in shared narrative, as they contradict but also
deepen one other’s version of youthful events. Leonard Lopate
is an institution on New York radio, but he didn’t plan to
be. He studied painting with Mark Rothko and worked
in advertizing, hosting his first radio show in 1977. His
younger brother, writer Phillip Lopate, is the director of the
nonfiction graduate program at Columbia University, his
alma mater. His two new books - two!
- explore theory and practice. Portrait Inside
My Head is a collection of personal essays. To Show and
to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction is, well you
get the idea.