The Permanence of Absence

Does the garden die with the gardener? Join us as J. Bradley Minnick and his guest, award-winning author Christine Schutt , explore the answer to this question through Schutt's short story, "The Duchess of Albany." The story deals with loss, isolation, meddling adult children, issues of aging, and the desire to preserve what others have left behind. “The Duchess of Albany” is from Schutt’s short story collection, Pure Hollywood , published by Grove Press. “The garden was not genteel. The garden