Joan Silber’s “Secrets of Happiness”
Author Joan Silber joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to discuss her new novel, Secrets of Happiness.
By LARB Radio HourJune 11, 2021
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F2021063.png)
Listen to the episode
Joan Silber’s “Secrets of Happiness”
00:00/00:00
Keep LARB paywall-free.
As a nonprofit publication, we depend on readers like you to keep us free. Through December 31, all donations will be matched up to $100,000.
Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud
Author Joan Silber, whose 2017 novel Improvement won both the PEN/Faulkner award and the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new novel, Secrets of Happiness, a multivoiced story of a family rocked by a father's betrayal. As it moves across characters and continents, Secrets of Happiness considers the weight of love, family, and other attachments in a world where nothing is as it seems and happiness is a fleeting experience best savored in the present.
Also, Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, returns to recommend Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir and Martha S. Jones’s Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
LARB Contributor
The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.