Marly Youmans Reading, hosted by John Wilson

Marly Youmans is one of today’s masters of language and imagination. Her poetry and fiction blend fantastic, historical, and everyday elements that have delighted readers for decades. In this program, book critic and editor John Wilson introduces a series of dramatic readings of Youmans’s fiction and poetry, from her critically acclaimed Catherwood (1996) to her recently released Charis in the World of Wonders. Readers include Makomoto Fujimura, Keisuke Hoashi, Chris Phillips, and Lauren Stango.