Alberto Manguel




Blackwell Online Podcasts show

Summary: Alberto Manguel is a Argentine-born Canadian writer, translator, and editor. In his second appearance on our show, Manguel discusses his new book 'A Reader on Reading', in which he argues that the activity of reading, defines our species. Manguel explores the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies.