Lore Segal on her new book The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing (7/2/19)
From her very first story—which appeared in The New Yorker in 1961—to today, Lore Segal’s voice has been unique in contemporary American literature, hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental. Segal has often used her own biography as both subject and inspiration: At age ten she was sent on the Kindertransport from Vienna to England to escape the Nazi invasion of Austria, grew up among English foster families and eventually made her way to the US. This experience inspired her first novel, “Other People’s Houses” and is one that she has revisited throughout her career. From that beginning, Lore's writing has ranged widely across form as well as subject matter. With a new collection of her work entitled “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” released on June 25, Lore joins us for a look back at her illustrious career, in this edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI.