In collaboration with Twenty Summers , we air the first in our series of recorded conversations at the Hawthorne Art Barn in Provincetown. Inspired by Mendelsohn's acclaimed memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, and Cunningham's fictional works that have paid homage to Woolf, Whitman, and even classic fairy tales, the two authors discuss how writers turn consciously to literature itself as a way of broadening their own horizons.