Louise Erdrich on THE SENTENCE

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 11 a.m.

\u201cI'd always wanted to write a ghost story. And I always wanted to write about what it was like to be haunted, because I feel that so many of us are.\u201d Louise Erdrich\u2019s new novel,\xa0The Sentence\u2014her first after\xa0The Night Watchman, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\u2014is a funny, big-hearted and profound story of second chances and ghosts, books and bookselling, and the messy love between spouses and parents and children. Louise joins us on the show to talk about hauntings, perfect short novels, the joys of bookselling, the power of names and more. Featured books:\xa0The Sentence by\xa0Louise Erdrich and\xa0Euphoria\xa0by Lily King. Produced/hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang.

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