Chang-rae Lee & Karen Russell on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He is the author of five previous novels: Native Speaker
(1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered, which was a
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014). My Year Abroad,
published by Riverhead Books, is his latest. He joins Marrie Stone to
talk about creating a sensationalistic novel, in every sense of the
word. He talks about how he surprises himself (and his readers), writing
food, sex, torture and much more.
Karen Russell talks about her prescient novel, Sleep Donation. Written in 2014, the book that was intended to be whimsical satire on an insomnia pandemic has become a dark commentary on the times we're living through. Russell talks about the strange ways the book has taken on new meaning, serendipitous experiences she encountered while publishing it, and so much more.
Download audio of Chang-rae Lee's Interview.
(Broadcast date: February 24, 2021)
(Record date: February 8, 2021)
Download audio of Karen Russell's Interview.
(Broadcast date: February 24, 2021)
(Record date: January 26, 2021)