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Spoken Arts: Author Lee Stringer

By Mary Van Vorst

Buffalo, NY – Lee Stringer's name may be familiar from his 1998 best-seller "Grand Central Winter," an account of his 12 years of homelessness and drug addiction on New York City streets. He once took refuge in a crawl space in Grand Central Station. In his latest book, Stringer takes us back to his childhood.

Click the "listen" icon above to hear Mary Van Vorst's conversation with Lee Stringer in this week's Spoken Arts.

You can hear Lee Stringer read from "Sleepaway School" Friday night at 7 at Talking Leaves' Elmwood Avenue store. It's free and open to the public.