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Interview with Francine Prose [audio]


This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History.

“I really loved it,” Francine Prose says of Nixon-era San Francisco in this episode of The World in Time, “but I also knew I wasn’t going to live there forever. My good fortune was that I wasn’t around a lot of hippies giving acid to two-year-olds. This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History, about the San Francisco she remembers from her youth, about her relationship with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Tony Russo, about the final defeat of 1960s counterculture, and about the eerie echoes of Prose’s favorite movie, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

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