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Today, a look at Dante's Inferno. Readings by Robert Pinsky from his new book, The Inferno of Dante : a new verse translation. And a discussion with the "Dean of American Dante scholars," John Freccero, about why the Divine Comedy is up there with Shakespeare and the Bible.

American novelist Louis Begley brings a different voice to his account of surviving the Holocaust in his prize-winning novel Wartime Lies. Eleanor Wachtel talks to him about that book and his newest novel, About Schmidt.