For the second Writing Life Podcast conversation with Hanya Yanagihara, we moved from tea at a posh London hotel to lunch at a posh(ish) London restaurant. This was not the only difference. Yanagihara had herself moved: jobs, from Conde Nast to the New York Times; and novels from her debut The People in the Trees to A Little Life, which has recently been long-listed for the Man Booker prize.
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The conversation took place about a month before publication in the UK, but shortly after it was released in America to ecstatic reviews. I had recently been in New York and seen the novel everywhere. Well, mainly in bookstores, but on prominent display.
We begin - Hanya in mid-breadmunch - with her hero, Jude: 'I just wanted to write a character who never got better,' she tells me. From there, we shift focus to examine:
Part 2 will follow in the nextfew days.
Episode 130 - Neel Mukherjee: Part 1
Episode 129 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 4 (Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 128 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 3 (Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 127 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 2 (This Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 126 - Meena Kandasamy reads from The Gipsy Goddess
Episode 125 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 1 (This Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 124 - Rick Bass: Part 5 - For a Little While
Episode 123 - Rick Bass: How do we protest Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt and the rest?
Episode 122 - Rick Bass: Part 4 - For a Little While
Episode 121 - Rick Bass: are you optimisitic about human nature?
Episode 120 - Rick Bass: Part 3 - For a Little While
Episode 119 - Rick Bass on his collection For a Little While (and getting lost in writing)
Episode 118 - Rick Bass: Part 2 - For a Little While
Episode 117 - Rick Bass: Part 1 - For a Little While
Episode 116 - Gary Younge: Part 4
Episode 115 - Gary Younge: Part 3
Episode 114 - Gary Younge: Part 2
Episode 113 - Gary Younge: Part 1
Episode 112 - Kevin Sullivan: Part 5
Episode 111 - Kevin Sullivan: Part 4
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