Steve Earle's Novel "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"

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Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Robyn Shanti interviews musician Steve Earle about his first novel

Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict. The doctor makes a living by performing illegal abortions and is haunted by the ghost of Hank Williams, with whom he was traveling when Williams died of an overdose.

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