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Marginalia: Amor Towles

David Jacobs

This episode features an interview I had recently with Amor Towles. His  first book, Rules of Civility, was a novel layered in the opulence of society. The theme is repeated in his second novel--A Gentleman in Moscow--but this time it turns to Russia during its transition to the Stalinist Era. After the Russian Revolution, Count Alexander Rostov--the gentleman of the title--is placed under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol and for the next 3 decades must decide whether he will master his circumstances, or be mastered by them.

Here’s our conversation:

If you listened to the Marginalia commentary on-air, this is what you heard:

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Marginalia, the commentary | Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles was published by Viking.  

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia and co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast. You can find her on Wichita Transit in conversation with other riders for En Route, a monthly segment on KMUW's weekly news program The Range.