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    Gina Apostol Gets Meta

    by Jen Doll Oct 26, 2020 4 minutes

    “What a weird world we’re in,” Gina Apostol says via Zoom on the day news broke of President Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis. She’s at her partner’s house in Western Massachusetts, where she usually spends summers.

    As a teacher at the New York City prep school Fieldston, Apostol is able to work remotely. This semester, she’s teaching James Baldwin to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. “It’s all Baldwin, all the time,” she says. “I was just texting my friends and my co-teachers saying that the freshmen call Baldwin ‘James.’ They’re the cutest.”

    Apostol, 57, is the author of 2013’s  a PEN Open Book Award–winning novel and her. Her first two novels, 1997’s  and 2009’s , both won the Philippine National Book Award for fiction and have only been available in her native Philippines. But in January, a revised edition of  will be released by Soho Press. The timing might be ideal, given the subject matter and its relationship to the weird world we’re in.

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