Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with American writer Russell Banks - described by the New York Times as "the most compassionate fiction writer working today." His new novel, Lost Memory of Skin explores the marginal and the outsider with grit and humour.

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Music to close the show:
RY COODER : COMPOSER AND PERFORMER  
She's Leaving the Bank
PARIS, TEXAS

WARNER BROS CD 35270 Track 7