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'Every Exquisite Thing' Looks At The Power Of Fiction

photo of Matthew Quick
Benj Lipchak

As an English teacher,  reveled in placing the right book with the right student.

He is now a best-selling novelist and explores the power of a good book in his latest work,  (Little, Brown and Company/2016). The novel features the story of an unassuming high school girl who chooses to rebel against her prescribed well-to-do lifestyle after she reads an inspiring book.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Quick about his novel and his life as a teacher and writer. Quick reads at  and at .

  

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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