The Atlantic Interview: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates)

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the inaugural episode of The Atlantic Interview, The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about race, identity, and her reaction to a nervous interviewer calling her "Chimichanga." Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a cameo. Read the transcript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and welcome to the Atlantic interview.
0:39.1	Each week I'm going to talk to a fascinating person and ask them a bunch of questions,
0:42.7	and they're going to give me a bunch of fascinating answers,
0:45.0	and that's the entire concept of this new podcast.
0:48.6	Today, we're going to listen to my interview with Chimimimanda and Gosea Dici,
0:52.5	the great Nigerian-American novelist.
0:55.2	In America, I feel black with all of its, all of the rubbish that comes with it.
1:00.9	And it's a special surprise, which is not a surprise anymore, I'm about to tell you.
1:05.2	We have Tana Hasi Coates from the Atlantic, who is not a great Nigerian-American novelist, but is a great writer nonetheless.
1:12.1	Chimamanda, as much as I hate to say this, it pains me to say that.
1:16.9	I spoke to Chimimamanda and Tana Hasey a couple of weeks ago in Paris.
1:20.4	I like when people are actually honest. Wait, hold on. Let me keep this on the thing.
1:25.3	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, and my guest today is...
1:30.7	Sorry, because now you're going to do it to me.
1:33.6	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg.
1:34.6	I'm the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, and welcome to the Atlantic interview.
1:37.6	My guest today is Chimimamanda.
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