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Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas: Marguerite Young's Angel In The Forest (Audio)
Dec 06, 2016
Produced by Clocktower Radio.
The enigmatic, iconoclastic writer Marguerite Young (1908-95) and her friend Anaïs Nin with hosts Charles Ruas and Joan Schwartz in the WBAI New York radio studios in 1976. Together they profile the author and analyze one of Young's masterworks, the non-fiction utopian study, Angel In the Forest (1945). The story tells of her life in the late 30s living in a wildly mis-managed Socialist Utopian community with its eccentric inhabitants in New Harmony, Indiana. An extraordinary account of popular mysticism and spiritual trends in American history, largely forgotten or unexplored.