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Interview Details
Title & Link
Interview - 99.10.20
Publish Date
October 20, 1999
Interviewees
Leslie Epstein
Interviewers
Daniel Smith
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly
Topics
comedy and tragedy in literature
critics
Hollywood
Hollywood's response to the Holocaust
Holocaust in film
Jewish past
literature
personal experiences during World War II
reading reviews
survivors' guilt
the Holocaust
use of historical figures in fiction
People Mentioned
Ben Hecht
Bette Davis
Chekov
Claude Rains
Daniel Evanier
Edward Said
Elijah Anderson
Geoffrey Wolff
Henri Bergson
Jack Warner
James Gleick
Jonathan Dee
Joseph Epstein
Julius Epstein
Lina Wertmuller
Michiko Kakutani
Nicholas Lemann
Philip Epstein
Richard Wilbur
Roberto Benigni
Rolland Jaspers
Vikram Seth
Witold Rybczynski
Works Mentioned
An Equal Music
Arsenic and Old Lace
Casablanca
Code of the Street
Don Quixote
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Goldkorn Tales
Holinshed's Chronicles
Ice Fire Water
King of the Jews
Life
Life Is Beautiful
Mr. Skeffington
Narcissus Leaves the Pool
Out of Place
Sands of Iwo Jima
Seven Beauties
Shoah
The Big Test
The Fighting Lady
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Steinway Quintet
War and Peace
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Places Mentioned
Argentina
Bergen-Belsen
Buenos Aires
Central Park
Hollywood
Lower East Side
New York
Santa Monica
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