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A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)

The Paris Review

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The Importance of Beauty in Fiction

Today's show features a poem written and performed by Vijay Sushadri. A new short story by Rebecca Mackay, read by Quincy Tyler Bernstein. We begin with archival tape of the Paris Review's 1992 interview with Tony Morrison. The Ilanthus is a tree common to Brooklyn and also somewhat less common to Brooklyn literature.

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