Julio and guest co-host ITT fellow, Nour Saudi, talk to Chimene Suleyman, writer and co-editor of The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. They discuss the common immigrant experience, what makes an immigrant “good,” and how literature can be a form of political activism in the age of Trump.

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Listen to Chimene and other writers from The Good Immigrant talk about their immigrant experience in today’s America, from NPR.
Check out My Immigration Story, the story of U.S. immigrants in their own words.
This essay on the evolution of immigrant narratives in literature, from Literary Hub.


This episode was mixed by Jeanne Montalvo. 

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