In this episode of Superior Reads, I had a fascinating conversation with Michael Finkel, author of Stranger in the Woods, True Story, and his latest, The Art Thief about the infamous Stephan Breitwieser who amassed nearly $2 billion dollars of art in his garret apartment above his mother’s home. Our conversation is full of energy and insight into the mind of an aesthete who stole for pleasure not profit.
Lin Salisbury is the producer and host of Superior Reads on WTIP Radio 90.7 Grand Marais, and on the web, and has hosted New York Times bestelling authors, National Book Award winners, Minnesota Book Award winners, and Pulitzer Prize winning authors on her monthly show featuring author interviews and book reviews. She is currently at work on a memoir, Crazy for You, and a novel, The Violet Hour Book Club. She is the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and has been awarded the Lake Superior Writers Creative Nonfiction Award and a Loft Mentor Series fellowship in Creative Nonfiction.
