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In Conversation: On Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

In Conversation: On Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

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Paul Auster’s Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane is an insightful, probing account of the singular life of a writer who, through original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage, transformed American literature. Moderated by Mitchell Kaplan, founder of Books & Books.

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Mitchell Kaplan is a co-founder of Miami Book Fair, has served as chairperson of its board and continues to guide the programming team at the Fair. A Miami Beach native, he founded the independent bookstore Books & Books in 1982, which now has five South Florida locations and hosts more than 400 literary events a year. Kaplan also hosts the podcast The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan, and with Paula Mazur founded The Mazur Kaplan Company, a production company bringing books to the screen. Their most recent film, Let Him Go, adapted from Larry Watson’s novel of the same name, features Diane Lane and Kevin Costner.

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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park: A Novel, The Book of Illusions: A Novel, and the New York Trilogy, among many other works. He is a recipient of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age 28. Auster’s Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Henry Holt and Co.) is an insightful, probing account of a singular life which seems to zig and zag between one perilous situation to the next, including writing an article that disrupts a presidential campaign, battling the New York City police department, surviving a shipwreck, and oh yes, withstanding enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War. Crane then relocates to England, where he befriends Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Burning Boy is a dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it. Author Russell Banks called it “brilliant and beautiful … This is more than a novel, more than a biography, more than a book of critical analysis. This is a significant work of literature.”

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