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Jun. 03, 2011
Novelist, Doctor Chris Adrian On
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| The worlds of the magical and the medical collide in Chris Adrian's fiction. Often set in dreary hospitals, fumbling doctors are sometimes accompanied by angels or fairies with magical powers. Adrian, a pediatric oncologist, talks about his new novel, The Great Night, a retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hear extra clips from this interview at Sci-Arts. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
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Chris Adrian
Fellow, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
University of California, San Francisco
Author, "Gob's Grief" (Vintage, 2002); "The Children's Hospital" (McSweeney's, 2006); "The Gr
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