![]() ![]() Contance Eichenlaub for her passion and generosity. This program has been restored by The Clocktower Radio with the assistance of Charles Ruas and by agreement with The Yale Beinecke Library, home to the Marguerite Young Papers. All readings are underscored with soundscapes and music by artist Rob Wynne. As part of this series, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was read over a year-long period by Marguerite Young’s contemporaries from the New York City literature, music, and theater communities. ![]() In 1976-77, Charles Ruas produced a series of WBAI radio programs focused on literature and radio performance, called The Reading Experiment. In prose that is poetic, incantatory, and extraordinarily rich, Marguerite Young takes us on a search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare, touching on subjects as varied as drug addiction, womens suffrage, murder, suicide, pregnancy (both real and imagined), schizophrenia. It took the under-recognized, enigmatic and iconoclastic author eighteen years of work to complete this dense, two volume novel. Often compared to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Young's novel resonates with unique and poignant observations of American culture, in an epic and surrealist poetic prose. Educated at Indiana University and Butler University, Indianapolis (B.A., 1930), Young also studied at the University of Chicago (M.A., 1936) and did. 17, 1995, Indianapolis), American writer best known for Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), a mammoth, many-layered novel of illusion and reality. Actress Betty Lou Holland then reads Chapter 1 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. Marguerite Young, in full Marguerite Vivian Young, (born 1909, Indianapolis, Ind., U.Sdied Nov. Author and poet Doris Dana reads a portrait of Marguerite Young, based on an article published in Changes magazine by Erica Duncan. ![]()
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