Poets & Writers Theater
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“I had to pretend I was someone else writing about me to gain some distance from myself because part of the subject of this book is how difficult it is for us to know ourselves.” Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his family’s struggles and traumas, and the challenges of writing his new book, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial (Grove Atlantic, 2023), in this PBS NewsHour interview with Jeffrey Brown. Nguyen’s memoir is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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"You can't be an activist or a writer or a public figure all day long, and I just have to be myself." Roxane Gay, author of the best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014), talks about Twitter, adapting her novel, An Untamed State (Grove/Atlantic, 2014), to film, and the unexpected pressures of literary fame at the 2016 AWP conference and book fair in Los Angeles.
Tags: AWP | 2014 | interview | Harper Perennial | Grove/Atlantic | An Untamed State | 2016 | Roxane Gay | Bad Feminist | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction -
Author Roxane Gay, who is profiled in the May/June issue of the magazine, and her editor at Grove/Atlantic, Amy Hundley, chat about Gay's new novel, An Untamed State, about a Haitian American woman who is kidnapped, her wealthy father unwilling to pay the ransom.
Tags: interview | May/June 2014 | Grove/Atlantic | Amy Hundley | An Untamed State | Roxane Gay | Fiction
