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Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
Deborah Eisenberg reads and comments on her collection of stories, Twilight of the Superheroes. The stories reveal the abstract absurdity as well as the pain of human relationships and delve into the devastating truth that, even after an apocalypse, people still have to lie in the beds they've made, unable to sleep. Recorded at 192 Books in New York City, on March 27, 2006.
Born in 1945, Eisenberg grew up in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka. She is the author of an acclaimed monograph on the paintings of Jennifer Bartlett, Air: 24 Hours and her collections of short stories include Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne and All Around Atlantis. She has also written for The New Yorker, Bomb, and The Yale Review. She is currently a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
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