Larry Brown was a Mississippi firefighter who called writing “a curveball I never saw coming.” But before his death at age 53 in 2004, he published several compilations of short stories, five novels and the memoir “On Fire.”
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with New York Times columnist and literary critic Dwight Garner (@DwightGarner) about “On Fire,” a book he calls a “gateway drug” and the perfect gift for a “man who doesn’t read as much as he might.”
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