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Remembering to Listen with Arundhati Roy & Viet Thanh Nguyen

Remembering to Listen with Arundhati Roy & Viet Thanh Nguyen

FromLibrary Talks


Remembering to Listen with Arundhati Roy & Viet Thanh Nguyen

FromLibrary Talks

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Twenty years after Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things," she returned to writing fiction in 2017 with her novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." The book was hailed for its ability to juggle “the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation.” Roy spoke with Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel "The Sympathizer" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. Together they discussed Roy's life before she became a writer, the relationships between writing and political activism, plus Roy reads from "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness."
Released:
Jul 10, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Feed your brain every Sunday with the best live conversations from The New York Public Library. An eclectic mix of voices and perspectives, Library Talks features your favorite writers and the ones you’ll love next. Hosted by NYPL live event programmer, Aidan Flax-Clark.