Memoirist and former Boston Globe book critic Gail Caldwell reads from her new memoir, *Let′s Take the Long Way Home*, about her dear friend and colleague, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Knapp.
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Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for *The Boston Globe*, where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is also the author of *A Strong West Wind*, a memoir of her native Texas. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.