Who is Chile Olsen and what makes her a significant American writer?

Aos Scott will be here to discuss the latest subject in his series of essays, The Americans.

What can you learn about the Holocaust from a single photograph?

Wendy Lauer will join us to talk about the ravine.

Alexander Olter will have an update from the publishing world.

Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Book Review podcast for The New York Times.

It's March 26th.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Aos Scott joins us now to talk about the latest in his series of essays, The Americans.

Tony, thanks for being here.

Great to be here.

This turnaround you chose, Tilly Olsen, which is a name that one says, and there's a pause

after, while people think, like, should I admit that I've never heard of her?

Who is Tilly Olsen?

Tilly Olsen is a writer who's best known for a collection of short stories called Tell Me a Rital,

which was published in the early 1960s.

Stories appeared in the years before and made quite an impact.

And their stories told in a very compressed, lyrical, modernist style, but the subject

matter is very realistic and deals mostly with women and working class women and their daily

struggles.

She also wrote a novel, or a novel was published that she had written earlier in the 1930s,

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