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Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson: True Nature

The New York Public Library Podcast by The New York Public Library

Dec 17, 202552:21Education

In this episode of Library Talks , author Lance Richardson joins Library Talks to discuss his new book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. He's joined by award-winning writer Sam Anderson. A towering figure...

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Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson: True Nature is an episode from The New York Public Library Podcast by The New York Public Library. In this episode of Library Talks , author Lance Richardson joins Library Talks to discuss his new book Tr...

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In this episode of Library Talks , author Lance Richardson joins Library Talks to discuss his new book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. He's joined by award-winning writer Sam Anderson. A towering figure of twentieth-century American letters, Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) defies categorization. He co-founded the Paris Review while working undercover for the CIA in postwar Paris, then escaped into a series of expeditions that found him floating through the Amazon to recover a fossil or embedding with a tribe in Netherlands New Guinea. His travels inspired prize-winning novels about Caymanian turtle hunters and outlaws in the Florida Everglades. Meanwhile, his legendary nonfiction ranged from influential nature books like Wildlife in America to advocacy journalism supporting Cesar Chavez and Leonard Peltier. Underlying all these disparate pursuits was Matthiessen's existential

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Published Dec 17, 2025 and 52:21 long