STORYBOUND: Madhuri Vijay

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4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Madhuri Vijay reads an excerpt from her novel "The Far Field", featuring French Cassettes. Madhuri Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Non-Required Reading, Narrative Magazine, and Elle India, among many other publications. The Far Field is her first book, and won the second JCB Prize for Literature, India’s most prestigious literary award. French Cassettes are a harmony driven power pop rock quartet out of the Bay Area. Their new album, Rolodex, is just out and can be found at fullfrenchy.com. This episode samples their song, Utah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	Welcome everyone to a new episode of Storybound.
0:31.3	This week on the show, we're joined by Madri Vijay, who will be reading an excerpt from her debut novel The Far Field, which the New Yorker
0:38.7	described as having exquisite but unflowery prose, and with sincere sentiment, but little sentimentality.
0:46.8	Madri won the Pushcart Prize for the Far Field, which was also a publisher's weekly
0:51.5	Best Book of 2019, an economist's best book of the year,
0:55.8	and was anticipated everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal.
1:00.5	She will be joined by the French cassettes, a harmony-driven power pop rock quartet for an original musical score.
1:08.3	Mardris, the Far Field, examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality
1:13.6	through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of
1:19.7	compassion. You will hear all of this in Madri's reading. Well, we actually recorded this while
1:25.3	Madri was reading from a studio in Hawaii, and we are still jealous.
1:30.2	All right, let's start the show.
1:33.1	I'm Madhuri Vijay, and this is an excerpt of my novel, The Far Field.
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