Best of Design Matters: Celeste Ng

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Celeste Ng—New York Times bestselling author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts—joins a live audience to talk about her illustrious career exploring complex family dynamics and themes of identity, race, and culture.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in October of 2023.
0:14.0	People that I've talked to have very clear opinions about what they think happens after the last
0:19.3	page.
0:20.3	I found this actually about all three of my books.
0:21.6	They come up to me and they're like, can you please confirm for me?
0:25.2	This is what happens and I'll be like, if that makes sense to you, then that's what happens, right?
0:31.9	That's the space I think that I want to leave open for the reader.
0:34.4	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:44.9	For 18 years, Debbie Milment has been talking with designers and other creative people about
0:48.7	what they do, how they got to be, who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this
0:53.7	episode novelist Celesteing on how fiction can change the world. It's trying to say
0:59.3	yeah I know that's not true but can you just imagine for a second? And that makes extra space for the possibility of change.
1:17.0	This interview with Celeste Ing was part of the Design Matters Live Tour presented by On Air in Boston on September 19th, 2023. Debbie was joined on stage to conduct the interview by Roxanne Gay.
1:27.1	Welcome to Design Matters. Celeste, my very first question for you today is this.
1:36.5	I understand that you can fix almost anything. The list includes leaky faucets, your dishwasher, your
1:47.8	son's wind-up toys, and even large appliances like dryers.
1:55.6	How did you get to be so handy?
1:57.9	I guess in the spirit of honesty,
1:59.7	I should say I will try to fix almost anything and I have managed to fix most of the things that you mentioned.
2:07.0	It really?
2:08.0	Really?
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