Anka Muhlstein's guest appearances

Anka Muhlstein

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Dorothea Lange

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Edmund de Waal

Julius Shulman

John Muir

James Rollins

Frank Gehry

William Blake

Lou Berney

Steven Johnson

Joe Hart

Chuck Palahniuk

Daniel Silva

Paul Revere

Tana French

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David McNally

We speak with Anka Muhlstein about her new book The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels. She is the author of many other books, including LaSalle: Explorer of the North American Frontier, and Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds. We also talk with David McNally about his new book Mark of an Eagle: How Your Life Changes the World. He is the author of many other books, including Even Eagles Need a Push: Learning to Soar in a Changing World, and Be Your Own Brand.

We speak with Anka Muhlstein about her new book The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels. She is the author of many other books, including LaSalle: Explorer of the North American Frontier, and Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds. We also talk with David McNally about his new book Mark of an Eagle: How Your Life Changes the World. He is the author of many other books, including Even Eagles Need a Push: Learning to Soar in a Changing World, and Be Your Own Brand.

3/14/2017 Anka Muhlstein & David McNally

Robert Cavelier

As the French were establishing settlements in Quebec and the Great Lakes, one French explorer had his sights on the Mississippi River.

Robert Cavelier de La Salle - La Salle by Anka Muhlstein

The close relationships between artists and authors in 19th-century France is evidenced in the illustrious novels of Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, J. K. Huysmans, and Guy de Maupassant. These novelists wrote about painting, created painters as characters, and physically described characters in the vein of their painter-friends. Anka Muhlstein, author of "The Pen and The Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels," discusses how the intimate exchange between authors and artists influenced the literary current of the time.

Anka Muhlstein on Artists and Authors in 19th-Century France