Fiction Opens Minds: Marlon James and Curtis Sittenfeld
Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead, 2014), and Curtis Sittenfeld, author of the novels Prep, Sisterland, American Wife and the forthcoming Eligible, continue our series exploring how fiction, not non-fiction, has been shown to open minds and build tolerance for uncertainty.
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"What I write about, for Jamaicans, is still a present-tense event." – 2015 Man Booker Prize winner @MarlonJames5 pic.twitter.com/nc2s0EJQVO
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2015
What novel made you more open-minded? @csittenfeld says 'Make Your Home Among Strangers' by @crucet. Challenges of 1st-gen college students.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2015
The last novel that made @MarlonJames5 cry was 'The Time of Our Singing' by Richard Powers. "The most tragic American story I’ve ever read."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2015
