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GREAT BOOKS 36: Doon Arbus's The Caretaker, with Doon Arbus


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I speak with writer Doon Arbus about her debut novel, The Caretaker. It's a spell-binding, intricate and haunting tale of a world-renowned philosopher's house museum filled with stuff, and the mysterious man who becomes the museum's caretaker. Doon and I discussed the idea that objects carry their own histories with them, how we behave in museums, and whether it's necessary to carefully or curate or, perhaps, to completely destroy a biography in order to appreciate an artist's or writer's work.
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