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 28: The Iceberg Theory
Episode 27: Kicking the Ghost
Episode 26: Autofiction: Universal Virtue or Literary Selfie?
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Episode 23: Bad Habits
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Episode 19: I love my job
Episode 18: On Shame & Writing
Episode 17: Minorities in Publishing
Episode 16: Cease & Desist
Episode 15: Voices on Addiction
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