The Scarlet Letter: Current Events & Pop Culture

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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture

Hester Prynne "In Character"

In March, 2008, NPR's series "In Character" featured, you guessed it, "Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner." The piece includes analysis by literary critics and Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, who confesses why a particular passage describing Prynne's hair always makes him cry. Listen to the podcast and/or read the transcript here.