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Feminist New Yorker writer Ariel Levy expresses talks to Robert McCrum about her views on the president elect and what he will mean for America.

In the week of the Presidential inauguration Robert McCrum talks to great writers about making the transition from Obama to Trump. In a series of wide-ranging interviews he asks Marilynne Robinson, Richard Ford, Malcolm Gladwell and others how they will write about the New America. Today it's the turn of the feminist New Yorker writer Ariel Levy to discuss how she will respond as a writer to the new President.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

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