Delve Program Guide: Christopher Lord

Christopher Lord

Delve Program Guide

Christopher Lord is the author of the Dickens Junction mystery series, has led several Delve seminars on Dickens and detective fiction, and is a past recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship.

PAST SEMINARS

2016/17

Thomas Hardy—Early and Late Novels: Under the Greenwood Tree and Tess of the D’Urbervilles

2015

Dickens Before and After the Holidays: A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

2014

Whodunit: Detective Fiction in the ‘Golden Age’

2013

Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
Guides: Christopher Lord & Judith Stone

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Philip Roth

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This episode, rebroadcast from March 2018, honors literary legend Philip Roth, who passed away on May 22 at the age of 85. Full of the poignancy and emotional insight that invested and entranced so many readers, this reading gives us a glimpse at the master himself just on the cusp of his major critical and artistic renaissance.

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