818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

Jacke talks to author James Bailey about his critically acclaimed biography Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark (press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691290…). PLUS J. Michael Lennon, friend and biographer of Norman Mailer ( Norman Mailer: A Double Life (bookshop.org/p/books/norman-mailer-a-double-li…)), stops by to discuss his choice for the last book he will ever read.

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