Specimen Days, 2005 - Information about the Book

After the huge success of "The Hours" (pulished 1998) Michael Cunningham thought that that was his last book. Yet at a party at a poet's house he decided to write another book, but not a second book with a literary figure.
When he worked on the first chapter he learned that New York was a hellish place and that this hellish place had produced a poet like Walt Whitman. Whitman who saw beauty in everything and gave the 21. century its sense of beauty. If this terrible place had produced this great poet, he had to be in his new novel.

Author Michael Cunningham talks about the novel, host: Hans Fischer. SwissEduc; July 15, 2006 (Real 4:45)
Maureen Corrigan reviews 'Specimen Days'. NPR; July 19, 2005 (5:07)
Author Michael Cunningham talks with Tom Crann about 'Specimen Days'. MPR; June 15, 2005 (13:04)
Author Michael Cunningham discusses 'Specimen Days'. NPR; June 7, 2005 (7:18)
Alan Cheuse reviews Specimen Days. NPR; June 7, 2005 (2:14)
Author Michael Cunningham is interviewed by Don Swain. Wired for Books; January 9, 1991 (Real 47:44)

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