Summary: <p>Kathleen Hill and Steven Gaines join Leonard in-studio for a discussion about what makes a great memoir.</p> <div>Beginning with a “Best American” award-winning narrative, Kathleen Hill’s memoir “She Read To Us in the Late Afternoons” explores defining moments of a life illuminated by novels, read in Nigeria and France and at home in New York.<img class=" wp-image-5496 alignleft" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/download-60.jpg?resize=166%2C166&ssl=1" alt="" width="166" height="166"> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>“One of These Things First” by Steven Gaines is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics.<img class=" wp-image-5497 alignleft" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/61X4-DZvHJL._US230_.jpg?resize=174%2C174&ssl=1" alt="" width="174" height="174"></p> </div>
