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Julio and guest co-host ITT fellow, Nour Saudi, talk to Chimene Suleyman, writer and co-editor of The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. They discuss the common immigrant experience, what makes an immigrant “good,” and how literature can be a form of political activism in the age of Trump.

ITT Staff Picks:

• Listen to Chimene and other writers from The Good Immigrant talk about their immigrant experience in today’s America, from NPR.


• Check out My Immigration Story, the story of U.S. immigrants in their own words.


• This essay on the evolution of immigrant narratives in literature, from Literary Hub.

This episode was mixed by Jeanne Montalvo. 

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