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Larry Bograd: on Family, Grief, and Writing with Compassion /Ep 4145
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- Duración: 0:13:18
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Sinopsis
Larry Bograd is an award-winning, widely translated author whose works have been published by Farrar/Straus, Harper and Macmillan. In addition to a UK edition, his books were translated into Japanese, French, Swedish, Danish and German. His first book, Felix in the Attic, won the Bank Street College Irma Simonton Black "Best Book for Children" award, and his novel Los Alamos Light was selected as a UNESCO Book for Peace. He has an extensive backlist and several anthologized short stories. His success as a children's book and young adult author was cut short by censorship and book banning because he wrote honestly about childhood poverty and adolescent sexuality. When it became clear that no publisher would promote his work, he turned to playwriting, screenwriting and documentary filmmaking. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Blood Flow is a dual memoir that travels back and forth in time, recounting the suicide of author Larry Bograd's physician father just two weeks after Larry's bar mitzvah, as well as Larry's