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    fiction/non/fiction

    Hosted by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, fiction/non/fiction interprets current events through the lens of literature, and features conversations with writers of all stripes, from novelists and poets to journalists and essayists.

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    S5 Ep. 21: Live from Unbound: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu on Affirming and Subverting Pop Culture in Fiction Apr 28, 2022
    Show notes

    Fiction writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where they talk about pop culture in the literary sphere, the blurring of the line between literary and popular fiction, and subverting tropes within their genres (plus, a bit of Frasier fanfiction). Nana reads from his short story collection Friday Black, and Sequoia reads from his novel How High We Go in the Dark. The two also take questions from the live audience at Unbound.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf, Carter Groves, Brooke Spalding-Ford, Shannon Moran, Maria Starns, and Kayla Wiltfong.

    Selected readings for the episode:

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    • Friday Black


    Sequoia Nagamatsu

    • How High We Go in the Dark
    • Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
    • "Elegy Hotel" by Sequoia Nagamatsu, print and audio, The Southern Review


    Others

    • Race in American Science Fiction
    • Star Trek
    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra T-shirt
    • Sony Aibo
    • Servant Trailer
    • Star Trek: The Chase Monologue
    • “The Origins of Directed Panspermia” | Scientific American
    • 2K Games
    • Final Fantasy
    • Madden
    • Deathloop
    • Panic! at the Disco
    • Pearl Jam
    • Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
    • The Orville
    • Blade Runner
    • Big Hero 6: The Series
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • Frasier
    • Groundhog Day
    • Edge of Tomorrow
    • Attack on Titan
    • Bel-Air
    • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
    • Palm Springs
    • Dragon Ball Z
    • Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • TVtropes.org
    • George and Paula Saunders Talk Empathy and the 2020 Democratic Candidates Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 16
    • Marlon James and Daniel José Older: Against Genre Snobbery Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 17

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    Introducing Storybound Apr 22, 2022
    Show notes

    Now celebrating its fifth season, Storyboundis a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by 2021 KCRW Radio Race winner Jude Brewer, Storybound presents the voices of today’s best writers, like Mitchell S. Jackson, Tamara Winfrey-Harris, and Lauren Groff, reading accomplished works of fiction and non-fiction. You’ll also hear original music specially composed for the respective text. Needless to say, it’s an immersive storytelling experience.


    The episode we’re sharing today features Debbie Millman, host of Design Matters and author of Why Design Matters. This episode is really special: Not only do we hear from Debbie herself, we also hear portions of the interviews Debbie conducted with luminaries like Ira Glass and David Byrne.


    If you enjoy what you hear, make sure to follow Storybound (for free) wherever you get your podcasts.

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    S5 Ep. 20: ‘A Spiritual-Industrial Complex’: SJ Sindu on Writing the Life of a Child God Apr 21, 2022
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    Novelist SJ Sindu joins host V.V. Ganeshananthan live from the Tamil Worlds Initiative at the University of Toronto-Scarborough to discuss her new novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, and its protagonist, Kalki, a blue-skinned boy raised in an ashram as the tenth human incarnation of Vishnu. Sindu talks about depicting caste, gender, and heteronormative privilege within a rigid community; the destructive intersection of spirituality and capitalism; and how the age of digital misinformation has aided the Hindu right’s attempt to redefine South Asian history.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf and Hannah Ward.

    Selected readings for the episode:

    SJ Sindu

    • Dominant Genes
    • Blue-Skinned Gods
    • Marriage of a Thousand Lies
    • I Once Met You But You Were Dead


    Others

    • Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
    • Tamil Worlds Initiative at the University of Toronto-Scarborough
    • “Where Countries are Tinderboxes and Facebook is a Match,” New York Times, April 21, 2018
    • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    • Marrying for a Future by Sidharthan Maunaguru
    • The marriages in-between - Himal Southasian A review of Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War by V.V. Ganeshananthan | Jan 29, 2020
    • Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity, Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 26

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    S5 Ep. 19: ‘The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger’: Alexandra Billings on What’s Behind the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation Apr 14, 2022
    Show notes

    Award-winning actor and LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist Alexandra Billings joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the spate of recent anti-Trans bills and American misogyny. Billings reads from her new memoir, This Time for Me, and talks about her life as a Trans woman, her career as a teacher, and her experiences on the show Transparent.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf, Hayley Brown, Zoë Harper, America Fontenot, and Ross Whitehead.


    Selected readings for the episode:

    Alexandra Billings

    • This Time For Me
    • Transparent
    • Wicked
    • The Nap
    • Transparent
    • The Connors
    • How To Get Away With Murder


    Others

    • Track Trans Legislation
    • The Phil Donahue Show
    • Vladimir Putin: J.K. Rowling and Russia Are Victims of Western “Cancel Culture”
    • Arizona governor signs bills limiting transgender rights, abortion

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    S5 Ep. 18: ‘Unlivable and Untenable’: Molly McGhee on the Punishing Life of Junior Publishing Employees Apr 07, 2022
    Show notes

    Fiction writer and former Tor assistant editor Molly McGhee joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss details of her recent resignation from a position she’d fought for in the industry she loves. She also talks about what’s behind #PublishingBurnout for junior employees and what that means for the future of publishing.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/


    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.


    Selected readings for the episode:

    • Molly McGhee
    • https://twitter.com/mollymcghee/status/1502343597676548099
    • https://twitter.com/mollymcghee/status/1510959170585047053
    • The Paris Review - America's Dead Souls


    • Others:
    • When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young? - The New York Times
    • Editorial Resignations At Big Houses Spark Reckoning - Publishers Lunch
    • https://twitter.com/ZakiyaNJamal/status/1502386226367664130
    • Episode 147—Publishing's Great Resignation (Print Run podcast)
    • A Woman's Life in Publishing - JSTOR Daily
    • Where Is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey Results | Lee & Low Blog
    • Women in The Gentleman's Career of Publishing | Princeton University Press
    • Literary Color Lines: On Inclusion in Publishing
    • https://twitter.com/bryonq/status/1502436599061258243
    • https://twitter.com/slipperyredhead/status/1495417527224176641
    • F/N/F Season 5 Episode 10: “How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

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    S5 Ep. 17: ‘We’re There to Bear Witness’: Putsata Reang on Reporting in War Zones Mar 31, 2022
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    Author and journalist Putsata Reangjoins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the dangers faced by foreign correspondents and local journalists during times of violent crisis. Reang talks about the dangers reporters are facing in Ukraine, recalls training journalists in Afghanistan, and reads from her forthcoming book Ma and Me: A Memoir. She also reflects on how her experiences in journalism connect to her history as a Cambodian refugee and her identity as a gay woman.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.


    Selected readings for the episode:

    Putsata Reang

    • Ma and Me: A Memoir
    • Opinion | My Family Fled Cambodia as the Americans Evacuated. Here's What I Hope for Afghan Refugees.- POLITICO
    • At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor - The New York Times
    • Full Circle: Two journalists return to their native countries to help other journalists express dissent — Oregon Humanities (with Kim Oanh Nguyen)


    Others

    • When the War is Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution by Elizabeth Becker
    • “Iraq War and News Media: A Look Inside the Death Toll” by Frank Smyth, Committee to Protect Journalists, March 18, 2013
    • "The Iraq War: The Heaviest Death Toll for the Media" Since World War II, March 2003 – August 2010 by Reporters Without Borders’ Middle East Desk, September 7, 2010 - Updated on January 20, 2016
    • “Ukrainian Family’s Dash for Safety Ends in Death” by Lynsey Addario and Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times, March 7, 2022
    • “American veterans train Ukrainian volunteers in combat” CNN
    • Excerpt of interview with NYT's Lynsey Addario by Norah O'Donnell of CBS Evening News (via Twitter)

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    S5 Ep. 16: ‘One of the Worst Places on Earth’: Mansoor Adayfi on the 20th Anniversary of Guantánamo Bay Prison Mar 24, 2022
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    Author and former Guantánamo detainee Mansoor Adayfijoins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his 14 years of systematic torture in the military prison. Adayfi reads from his memoir, Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo; recalls being ambushed, kidnapped, and sold to the U.S. by warlords; and explains the hunger strikes and protests he and other detainees participated in in defense of their lives and rights. Adayfi, who was ultimately found innocent and released, urges President Biden to work toward closing Guantánamo, which he describes as a place of lawlessness, oppression and injustice.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.


    Selected readings for the episode:

    Mansoor Adayfi

    • Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo
    • "An Open Letter to President Biden About Guantánamo" by Mansoor Adayfi, et al., The New York Review of Books, Jan. 29, 2021
    • Opinion | In Our Prison on the Sea - The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2017


    Others

    • Guantanamo Reports (Seton Hall University)
    • Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp | American Civil Liberties Union

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    S5 Ep. 15: ‘Forget What You Know About War’: Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us About the Invasion of Ukraine Mar 17, 2022
    Show notes

    Veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his time reporting in Chechnya. Anderson compares the First and Second Chechen Wars to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. He also reads from his nonfiction book, The Man Who Tried to Save the World, and talks about how he overcame efforts to quash a magazine article he wrote that was critical of Putin, as well as why Chechnya’s conflict was scary enough to leave him with a streak of white hair.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.


    Selected readings for the episode:

    • Scott Anderson
    • The Man Who Tried to Save the World
    • Midnight Hotel
    • Triage
    • The Four O’Clock Murders
    • Fractured Lands
    • The Quiet Americans
    • None Dare Call It a Conspiracy
    • Lawrence in Arabia

    

    • Others
    • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark
    • “Death of the Tiger,” by Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2011.
    • No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics, Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 3, Episode 25

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    S5 Ep. 14: ‘They Didn’t Know Which Way to Go’: Katya Soldak Sheds Light on the Plight of the Ukrainian People Mar 10, 2022
    Show notes

    Katya Soldak, Forbes editorial director and documentary filmmaker, joins hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss the evolving conflict between Ukraine and Russia. As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine, Soldak, who grew up in the country, shares insight into the bleak realities faced by citizens in cities like Kharkiv and Kherson, Russian misinformation, and the Ukrainian will to fight.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

    Selected readings:

    Katya Soldak

    • Monday, February 28. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine
    • The Long Breakup (Vimeo)


    Others:

    • 'I Screwed Up': Sean Spicer Says He Regrets Comments on Inauguration Crowd Size and Hitler

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    S5 Ep. 13: Censoring the American Canon: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Book Bans Targeting Black Writers Mar 03, 2022
    Show notes

    Acclaimed writer and professor Farah Jasmine Griffin joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about why book bans so often target the power of Black literature. Griffin discusses the censorship of Black authors like Toni Morrison as well as communities’ efforts to preserve and share Black stories when schools won’t. Author of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, Griffin discusses how her own exposure to Black authors like Morrison and James Baldwin came largely from her own father, outside of the classroom.

    To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/

    This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.


    Selected Readings:


    Farah Jasmine Griffin

    • Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    • “Banning Toni Morrison’s books doesn’t protect kids. It just sanitizes racism.” | The Washington Post
    • Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative

    Others:

    • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    • “Missouri school district bans Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’” | Today
    • Ralph Ellison
    • “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” and “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy” by Ralph Ellison from Going to the Territory
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison
    • Toni Morrison
    • James Baldwin
    • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
    • The 1619 Project
    • Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Adam Serwer on Critical Race Theory and the Very American Fear of Owning Up to Our Racist Past and Present Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 20
    • Angela Davis

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