Lucas Mann on The Marriage Plot

Book Fight by Mike Ingram

Jun 17, 202401:16:39Arts

We couldn't do a season on "the marriage plot" in literature without reading the Jeffrey Eugenides novel that's literally titled The Marriage Plot. Guest Lucas Mann (author, most recently, of the essay collected Attachme...

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