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Marginalia: Joan Silber On 'Secrets of Happiness'

Joan Silber is the author of nine works of fiction, including Improvement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Silber is known for her composite fiction, or novels that are linked stories. Her latest, Secrets of Happiness, is no exception. I recently spoke with Silber about her writing and the secrets of happiness.

Here’s our conversation:

Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber was published by Counterpoint.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.