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How Minnesota’s Literary SCENE Is Reacting to Racial INJUSTICE
Poet Michael Kleber-Diggs and memoirist Kao Kalia Yang join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss Minnesota’s...
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May 6, 2021
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This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by acclaimed writer Gish Jen...
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Apr 8, 2021
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Claire Messud and Brendan O’Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of ‘Fake News’
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by novelist and essayist...
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Dec 31, 2020
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Life After Trump: Jess Walter and Jerald Walker on the Aftermath of Election 2020
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to acclaimed novelist Jess Walter...
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Nov 19, 2020
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Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and US Provocateurs in Foreign Politics
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by veteran war correspondent...
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Sep 10, 2020
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Kaitlyn Greenidge and Russell Banks: On the Past and Present of Protest and White Backlash
In this episode, Fiction/Non/Fiction co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by acclaimed fiction writer and essayist...
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Aug 13, 2020
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The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement
In this special live episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, political commentator and historian Thomas Frank joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and...
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Jul 30, 2020
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Curtis Sittenfeld Tackles Centrism, Clintonism and All Things ‘Hillary Rodham’
In this episode, Curtis Sittenfeld discusses the mix of historical context and fictionalized character development—as well as the double...
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Jun 4, 2020
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Rebecca Solnit on the Intersection of Activism and Writing
In this episode, writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit reflects on her new memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence. Solnit talks...
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Mar 12, 2020
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Bill Fletcher and Chavisa Woods Talk Bernie Sanders and Looking Towards the Future
In this episode, author and activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. and author Chavisa Woods discuss Bernie Sanders’ frontrunner status in the...
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Feb 27, 2020
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All the President’s Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on the Citizens of the Swamp
In this episode, novelist Susan Choi and journalist Garrett Graff talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and...
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Jan 30, 2020
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Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse
In this episode, writers Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney...
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Dec 12, 2019
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Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Role of the Military in American Politics
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist Elliot Ackerman and memoirist Anuradha Bhagwati talk about how the military...
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Jul 11, 2019
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Lacy Johnson and Anjali Enjeti on the State of Reproductive Rights
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson speak with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney...
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May 30, 2019
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George and Paula Saunders Talk Empathy and the 2020 Democratic Candidates
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, taped live at the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, George and Paula...
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May 2, 2019
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Athletes, Politics, and Power: Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and Etan Thomas in Conversation
In this live episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, recorded at the 2018 Miami Book Fair, writers Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and...
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Dec 13, 2018
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Jane Coaston and Alexander Chee on Politics, Storytelling, and the Midterms
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, reporter Jane Coaston and writer Alexander Chee talk to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and...
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Nov 1, 2018
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Nathaniel Rich and Juliana Spahr: As the World Burns, Trump Tweets
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist and journalist Nathaniel Rich and poet and activist Juliana Spahr discuss...
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Sep 6, 2018
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#Families Belong Together:A Conversation
Writers Cristina Henriquez and Edwidge Danticat talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the urgent issue of keeping...
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Jun 28, 2018
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Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II
Writers Tayari Jones and DaMaris B. Hill talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell in the second of two special episodes on the...
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Jun 14, 2018
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