Best Of: Hanya Yanagihara And Bernardine Evaristo

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🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of 1A's Sunday Podcast, we bring you two conversations with two authors.

First, we speak with Hanya Yanagihara about her new novel, "To Paradise." It's topped almost every list of the most anticipated books of 2022.

We talk to Hanya about her new novel and her work as a magazine editor.

Later, we speak with British author Bernardine Evaristo. In 2019, she won the Booker Prize for her novel "Girl, Woman, Other." She's the first Black woman to do so in the award's 53-year history.

But before that, she had a long career writing plays, poetry, and short stories centered around the African diaspora.Her new memoir, "Manifesto,"is a story of perseverance.

We talk with Evaristo about finding her voice and never letting it go.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the One A Sunday Podcast. I'm Jen White and this week we're featuring
0:11.5	conversations with two authors. The first conversation is with Hanya Yanagahara. Her new
0:17.8	novel is called Two Paradise and it topped almost every list of the most anticipated books
0:24.1	of 2022. The stories that make up to Paradise span over 200 years and they're all set
0:31.0	at the same townhouse in New York. The inhabitants of the book and the home change steadily
0:36.4	over time. But they struggle with similar questions about illness, class and the enduring
0:43.1	but oftentimes false promise of Paradise. We talk to Hanya about her new novel and her
0:49.3	work as a magazine editor and later we talk with British author Bernadine Everesto who
0:55.0	won the booker prize for her novel Girl Woman Other. She's the first black woman to do so
1:02.5	in the awards 53 year history but before that she had a long career writing plays, poetry
1:08.7	and short stories centered around the African diaspora. So we'll talk to her about her new
1:13.6	memoir Manifesto and about finding her voice and never letting it go.
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1:57.5	Support for NPR and the following message come from BetterHelp, offering online counseling.
2:02.3	BetterHelp therapist Hesu Jo knows that lockdown has been hard on us as humans.
2:06.9	We as people are hardwired to connect with others which is why this whole time is so difficult.
2:12.3	The connection that happens between people can be very powerful and how healing it can
2:17.1	be to have a healthy relationship with someone.
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