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Sanctuary, with Uwem Akpan and Brad Kessler
Shadow // Yaddo
English - November 04, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsArts literature yaddo art artist artistresidency arts author books film history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Every Real Story is a Ghost Story, with Rufus Collins and Allan Gurganus
Next Episode: A Grand Old Dream, with Andrea Elliot
Yaddo luminaries Brad Kessler and Uwem Akpan on empathy across boundaries, essential storytelling, the paradox of sanctuary, and the decade it takes to get it right. Kessler, “a consistently impressive writer,” (PW) is the prize-winning author of the memoir Goat Song and three novels—Birds in Fall, Lick Creek and his latest, North. Akpan, whose powerful bestseller Say You’re One of Them covered human-trafficking, prostitution and genocide through the eyes of children, returns with New York, My Village, an exuberant, LOL-funny novel that follows a Nigerian editor to NYC’s heart of darkness. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, Damu the Fudgemunk.