Novelist Mark Salzman on Devotion

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen and novelist Mark Salzman look at the close intersections of artistic creation and religious devotion.

Salzman is the author of Iron and Silk, The Soloist, and Lost in Place. His latest book, Lying Awake, about the spiritual journey of a Carmelite nun, has just been published in paperback by Vintage.

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