Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz on 'Trust'

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Pulitzer Prize in fiction was awarded this week to Hernan Diaz’s novel ‘Trust,’ a Nerdette Book Club pick! To celebrate, we are sharing our book club conversation with the author from December of last year. In this spoiler-free episode, Hernan discusses the novel, male privilege, and who does – and doesn’t – have the power to tell their own story. Hernan shares the prize with Barbara Kingsolver for her novel ‘Demon Copperhead.’

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