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Louis Menand

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:27:31
Publish Date: 2021-06-19 10:56:07
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Author of The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, he is as sophisticated an intellectual as any of his colleagues at The New Yorker. The book that set him on his path? A Hardy Boys mystery, The Secret of the Old Mill. “I read this, and my heart was pounding. And I thought, I want to do that. I want to write things that will make people’s hearts beat.” And he does.

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