James Alan McPherson: A Matter of Vocabulary (Rebroadcast) (Critical Thinking)




WFMT: Critical Thinking and Critic's Choice show

Summary: In an encore presentation from 2011, Andrew reads a favorite short story by James Alan McPherson, “A Matter of Vocabulary” from his 1969 collection Hue and Cry. A longtime faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, McPherson, born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1943, was in the first class of MacArthur Fellows more...