NC Literary Lights: Meet Alan Shapiro
Monday, January 23 2012
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
Book cover, "Broadway Baby" by Alan Shapiro
Poet and writer Alan Shapiro expected to be a basketball star, not a literary star, but an injury took him off the court and left him alone with his grief. He found his way into verse and never left. Shapiro is the author of ten books of poems, two memoirs, a collection of criticism and now the novel "Broadway Baby," which was just released by Algonquin Books. He also has a new collection of poetry out called "Night of the Republic" (Houghton Mifflin/2012). Shapiro joins host Frank Stasio in the studio today to discuss the project of fiction versus the project of poetry, as well as basketball, grief and humor.
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