FORUM IN FOCUS: Viet Thanh Nguyen + Kishi Bashi

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Forum in Focus brings you the most compelling interviews in under 30 minutes! This week, professor and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen on his new memoir, "A Man of Two Faces. And a special performance by multi-instrumentalist and singer Kishi Bashi and a conversation about his new "songfilm" called "Omoiyari. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.9	Hi, I'm Mina Kim.
0:39.9	And I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:41.5	This is Forum and Focus,
0:43.0	a show where we bring you the most compelling conversations recorded live on our radio show forum at KQED in San Francisco.
0:49.9	Yeah, it's Forum for all you people who are squeezing in a podcast while you're picking up the kids or running to the store.
0:56.9	This has been a great week of shows on Forum. Hope listeners are kind of mashing around, finding them.
1:01.8	One must-listen show was with the musician Kishi Bashi. He's a multi-instrumentalist. He's a singer. He's a songwriter.
1:09.3	And he created a documentary, Omoyari,
1:11.6	in which he explores his identity by taking this pilgrimage to the places where
1:16.7	Japanese Americans were interned during World War II.
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