Author Meets the Critics
Family Circle
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Author Meets the Critics brings writers before a panel of critics for a discussion of a book. The program centers on the exchange between an author explaining or defending a work and reviewers questioning its ideas, arguments, and presentation.
Listeners hear a conversational literary forum rather than a dramatized story: the interest lies in the differing perspectives, the author’s responses, and the critics’ examination of the book. The title identifies this installment’s subject as Family Circle.
The result is a compact window into how books were discussed on radio, with the author and critics meeting directly over the work at hand.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.