Lights, Camera, Action with Kirthana Ramisetti

Ashley interviews Kirthana Ramisetti about her novel, Advika and the Hollywood Wives. They talk about writing a young woman making choices, writing about #OscarsSoWhite and Bollywood. They also discuss three films she would put into the Criterion Collection. 

Book content warning: death

Bookstores mentioned: Greenlight Bookstore, Beach Books, Book Soup, Book Passage, Sisters Uptown

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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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