Marian Seldes reads Chapter 2 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. Seldes is a celebrated stage, film, radio and television actress whose career spanned over six decades, and whose talents elected her to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1995 and awarded her the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Often compared to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Young’s novel resonates with unique and poignant observations of American culture, in an epic and surrealist poetic prose. It took the under-recognized, enigmatic and iconoclastic author eighteen years of work to complete this dense, two volume novel.

This program is in two parts, each about an hour in length.

Part 1

Part 2

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