Susan Choi’s Surprising Side Project
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
English - April 02, 2019 10:00 - 17.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 661 ratingsVisual Arts Arts TV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Susan Choi’s new novel, Trust Exercise, is a story about trust, betrayal, and the blurry lines between fiction and real life. It focuses on a group of teenagers at a performing arts high school in the 1980s and their fraught relationships with the eccentric teachers whom they idolize. The book takes a metafictional twist about halfway through, but Choi is loathe to describe it as such: “Don't use the M-word. Don't!”
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