Author and poet Thomas Lynch writes candidly about personal struggles in Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans, and says that he advises his students, “Write about things you fear the most and when you discover that the sky doesn’t fall, you will become emboldened.” In a similarly candid talk with Mike Sullivan, Director of Institution Relations for Chautauqua, Lynch reveals what he’s learned about the deeper meanings of ethnicity, talks about his profession as an undertaker, and speaks about the nature of human beings to “other-ize” people.

Host> Mike Sullivan, director, Institution Relations
Guest> Thomas Lynch, author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans, a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for 2007

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