Blake Bailey on Charles Jackson

Biographer Blake Bailey wrote a thoughtful, meticulously drawn portrait of John Cheever in his acclaimed Cheever: A life. Now, Blake Bailey dives into the compelling, complicated life of author Charles Jackson, best known for his bestselling book The Lost Weekend.

Blake Bailey will be joined by biographer/New Yorker writer D. T. Max, author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, and the two will chat about the art of biography and the intriguing lives of Charles Jackson and David Foster Wallace."