Cynthia Wallace: The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil

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Collegium alum Cynthia Wallace (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan) talks with Collegium director Karen Eifler about her book just out from Columbia University Press. In The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil, Wallace explores the deep and sometimes surprising impact of a very complex woman on the prose and poetry of Annie Dillard, Mary Gordon, Adrienne Rich, and several others.