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  1. A conversation about the best work of American fiction since 1980 with guest host Sam Tanenhaus
    A conversation about the best work of American fiction...

    with Thomas Mallon, Stephen Metcalfe and Meghan O'Rourke on May 30, 2006

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Thomas Mallon is an American novelist and critic. He received the Ingram Merrill Award in 1994 and won a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1986, and taught English at Vassar College from 1979-1991. He is the author of the novels “Henry and Clara”, “Two Moons”, “Dewey Defeats Truman”, and “Bandbox”, as well as four works of nonfiction.

Mallon is a former literary editor of “GQ”, where he wrote the “Doubting Thomas” column for ten years, and has contributed frequently to “The New Yorker”, “The New York Times Magazine”, and Harper’s. He was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 2002 and became Director of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004. He is currently serving as Active Deputy Chair of the NEH.

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