S4 Ep. 10: 'A Certain Kind of Hunger': Chang-rae Lee on Writing About Connection While We're Worlds Apart

fiction/non/fiction

In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by award-winning author Chang-rae Lee. Lee talks about the varied cast of characters in his new novel, My Year Abroad, writing about sensory and social experiences, and how he dove into his own growing feelings of isolation through the Trump administration and then the pandemic.

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This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.

Selected readings:

Chang-rae Lee

• My Year Abroad
• On Such A Full Sea
• The Surrendered
• Native Speaker
• A Gesture Life

Others:

• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” by Ralph Ellison

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