Fiction Across Divides
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To wrap up our #FictionOpensMinds series, novelists Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Riverhead, 2013), and Gish Jen, author of the novels Typical American, The Love Wife, World and Town, and Mona in the Promised Land, the short stories Who's Irish?, essays Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (Harvard University Press, 2013) and forthcoming non-fiction book The Girl at the Baggage Claim, talk about reading fiction as a way to cross sometimes clashing cultural divides.
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→ What work of fiction made YOU more open-minded? We're compiling a list of fictional works that made you less certain about your opinions using The List App. Download the app (it's free) to add to our list, and tweet your suggestions using #FictionOpensMinds.
→Read some our guests suggestions, and yours, here.
Fiction is at once a reflection of us and a part of our own self-making. –novelist @GishJen #FictionOpensMinds
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 18, 2015
@BrianLehrer @WNYC @thelistapp Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King,
— Tammy (@TammyBrooklyn) December 18, 2015
@BrianLehrer Waiting, by Ha Jin. Powerful novel about changing culture, bridging newly discovered desires w/ established responsibilities.
— Andrew Collins (@ascollins) December 18, 2015
Typical American expanded my interest in contemporary Asian writers to my great benefit#FictionOpensMinds @BrianLehrer
— Jaybee (@blackzelig) December 18, 2015
