PN 48: HBO’s Sheila Nevins on Seductions, Heartbreaks & Her New Book

Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald and Glenn Close are among many esteemed performers who read stories on the audio version of Sheila Nevins' new quasi-memoir “You Don’t Look Your Age…And Other Fairy Tales.” Nevins has served for 35 years overseeing HBO Documentary Films. Now she reveals tales from her own life covering childhood, seduction, heartbreak, feminism, motherhood and aging.

Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed Nevins on her 78th birthday (April 6). She speaks candidly about growing up with Communist parents, learning the power and limits of seduction, fighting for equal pay as a woman, being inspired  to write by Larry Kramer and facing her seventies.The conversation includes excerpts of passages read by Lena Dunham and Tovah Feldshuh.

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