This week's episode of the Animal Riot Podcast invites V.V. 'Sugi' Ganeshananthan (author of the 2008 novel, Love Marriage) and Whitney Terrell (author of three novels, The Huntsman, The King of Kings County, and The Good Lieutenant). Both Sugi and Whit studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop under the late James McPherson, who was the first black writer to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, a winner of the MacArthur grant (AKA the 'genius grant'), and a renowned activist and writer of issues surrounding race and culture. Having studied under McPherson at different times, Sugi and Whit didn't meet until the late and great writer's memorial service--yet as the Phoenix rises, so did the spirit of McPherson's values; after becoming fast friends, Sugi and Whit realized a shared vision for what has become the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, which espouses literature and politics, and more specifically, how the former predicts and/or digs deeper into the latter.
The transcript for this episode can be found on our website.
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Episode 52: Indoor Sunglasses
Episode 51: The Way I Used to Write
Episode 50: Making the Space for Writing
Episode 49: Who gets to write what?
Episode 48: Adult Poets
Episode 47: What’s in the box?
Episode 46: The Escapist
Episode 45: Twenty Acres of Taylor Swift
Episode 44: Everything You Do Is Completely Meaningless But It Is Very Important That You Do It
Episode 43: Worst Behavior
Episode 42: Breadcrumbs
Episode 41: Love, Peace & Taco Grease
Episode 40: Slushie Pile
Episode 39: Reframing Trauma
Episode 38: Under the Shroud
Episode 37: Read It Forward
Episode 36: Lost In Translation
Episode 34: Debut Books: On Feeling Nothing
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