Professor and Writer Andre Aciman on Egyptian Anti-Semitism
Aciman is the author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir." The book follows Aciman's close-knit, flamboyant Jewish family through 50 years of residence in Alexandria. The family was forced to leave Egypt when Aciman was 14, during a long wave of Anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism.
Other segments from the episode on February 13, 1995
Poet and Novelist Paul Monette on Living with AIDS
Monette died of complications from the AIDS virus on Friday, at age 49. His 1988 book "Borrowed Time: An Aids Memoir," was the first memoir to be published about AIDS, and won a National Book Award. In it, Monette told the story of his "beloved" friend and lover's two year struggle with AIDS. The book was called "a gallant, courageous love story." In 1992, he wrote a memoir about his own life before he came out of the closet at the age of 25, "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story." (Rebroadcast)
A First-Rate Guitar Player with a Second-Class Voice
Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new solo album by slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, "South of I-10."
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