Best Of: Novelist Maggie O’Farrell / A personal history of the N-Word
This episode of Fresh Air Weekend weaves together intimate literary and personal histories, centering on Maggie O'Farrell’s exploration of grief, identity, and Irish heritage through her novels Hamnet and Land, and Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s reckoning with her father Richard Pryor’s
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