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“I didn’t understand that I had to be ruthless. I didn’t understand that my job as a writer wasn’t to coddle my characters and create these fairy tales for them to live.” At Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat discuss writing about their homes and the power of place.
Tags: 2015 | Random House | Bloomsbury | Brown University | Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Men We Reaped | Edwidge Danticat | Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America | Writing for a Broken World | Ralph Rodriguez | Brother, I'm Dying | The Fire This Time | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction -
In this video, poets Kevin Young, Evie Shockley, and Terrance Hayes participate in a roundtable symposium on newness in the creative arts and American expressive culture held at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
