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A Conversation with Carlin Romano, Author of America the Philosophical
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library
May 21, 2012
Carlin Romano, critic-at-large of The Chronicle of Higher Education, spent 25 years as Literary Critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he also served at various times as cultural reporter, general assignment city staffer, and correspondent based in St. Petersburg, Russia. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle, he was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His work ...More
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