REPLAY: Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa
English - July 24, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSociety & Culture Education academia academic brilliant college intellectual pbk phibetakappa researchers scholars smart Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
While promoting her new book, an accomplished short story collection called Everything Inside, the PBK member and noted writer talks about her formative experiences, like imagining herself not as Madeline but the classic’s author, and writing for a high school paper in New York City a mere year after immigrating to the US from Haiti. She opens up about “borrowed memories” in her life and her work, about the role of death and ritual in healing, and the continuity of purpose in her writing.