Lorrie Moore: Danse Macabre

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Featuring an undead lover, a dying brother, and a ghost: Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home is a novel that bristles with life while waltzing with death. Celebrated widely for her dazzling short stories, no one writes quite like Moore; she has a knack of folding you in laughter one moment, then cutting straight to the heart the next. What a delight to welcome the acclaimed American author in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel today.

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