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Geoff Peck at White Whale on Masculinity, Protest, and Pittsburgh

Geoff Peck in conversation about his new novel “City of Clans” with editor Ed Simon.

On Friday February 6th author Geoff Peck spoke with Editor-in-Chief Ed Simon at PRoB’s official sponsor White Whale Bookstore about his new book City of Clans from the University of Iowa Press. Their wide-ranging conversation was recorded and is available here.

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