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Fresh Air, Hisham Matar and S. V. Date, February 22, 2007
- Length: 51 mins
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Summary
Novelist Hisham Matar, journalist S. V. Date, and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Isham Matar's semi-autobiographical debut novel In the Country of Men was short-listed for the 2006 Mann Booker Prize. Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli, Libya and then in Cairo, Egypt. Matar has lived in the UK since 1986. Matar's father, an opponent of Colonel Khadafy's regime, was arrested in 1990. Matar has been unable to find out what happened to him.
Then, S.V. Date, who writes for the Palm Beach Post. As such he followed Jeb Bush's eight-year reign as governor of Florida. His new book is Jeb: America's Next Bush.
Finally, Maureen Corrigan reviews the book When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It by Ben Yagoda. [Broadcast Date: February 22, 2007]
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