Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Masha Gessen—The Stories of a Life
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Masha Gessen—The Stories of a Life
The journalist and 2017 National Book Award Winner delivered the Library's annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture. The talk is named in honor of the co-founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died in March 2017. With unexpected candor and intimacy, Gessen traced her own life as a sequence of choices and explored how notions of choice affect ideas about immigration, identity, and purpose.
View all episodes
By The New York Public Library
4.4
312312 ratings
The journalist and 2017 National Book Award Winner delivered the Library's annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture. The talk is named in honor of the co-founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died in March 2017. With unexpected candor and intimacy, Gessen traced her own life as a sequence of choices and explored how notions of choice affect ideas about immigration, identity, and purpose.
More shows like Library Talks
View all
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,697 Listeners
The New Yorker: Fiction
3,355 Listeners
The Book Review
3,874 Listeners
Bookworm
577 Listeners
The New Yorker: Poetry
510 Listeners
Bookends with Mattea Roach
239 Listeners
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
458 Listeners
The Librarian Is In
576 Listeners
On Being with Krista Tippett
10,251 Listeners
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
2,146 Listeners
London Review Bookshop Podcast
128 Listeners
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
95 Listeners
Books and Authors
362 Listeners
The Paris Review
806 Listeners
City Arts & Lectures
387 Listeners
Poured Over
299 Listeners