Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of contemporary American life and nuanced relationships between men and women, discusses his writing career and his new collection of short fiction, Sorry For Your Trouble. “Acutely described settings, pitch-perfect dialogue, inner lives vividly evoked.” (The New York Times Book Review). His novels include Independence Day, The Sportswriter and Canada. In conversation with Geoffrey Harpham, Senior Fellow at Duke University and former President of the National Humanities Center.
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