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Dec 2021
1h 23m

Siri Hustvedt on the Value in Embracing ...

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Essayist, novelist, poet, and writer Siri Hustvedt, author of the new book of essays “Mothers, Fathers, and Others,” talks with Spencer about the peculiarities around motherhood, gestation, and maternity; books as friends; and the problems with putting up walls between disciplines. 
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