A Conversation with Maureen Corrigan
Week 6 | Th | Smith Wilkes Hall | Ages 14 and up
One of America’s most respected book critics with a distinctive voice at once incisive and accessible, Maureen Corrigan has been the weekly book critic on NPR’s Peabody Award-winning “Fresh Air” for more than 30 years. A regular contributor for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, Corrigan is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism in the Department of English at Georgetown University. She opens Chautauqua’s week on “A Life of Literature” with a discussion at the nexus of the classic and the contemporary, framing a week of discussions by tracing literary trends and examining the current state of literature.
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Maureen Corrigan
One of America’s most respected book critics with a distinctive voice at once incisive and accessible, Maureen Corrigan has been the weekly book critic on NPR’s Peabody Award-winning “Fresh Air” for more than 30 years. A regular contributor for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, Corrigan is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism in the Department of English at Georgetown University, Corrigan opens Chautauqua’s week on “A Life of Literature” with a discussion at the nexus of the classic and the contemporary, framing a week of discussions by tracing literary trends and examining the current state of literature.
